"Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language."

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Source : "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

David Crystal

#Technology Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.”
“I think my one of my strengths in standup is my ability to adlib. I do all my best writing on stage. I can sit down and write jokes, but I'd rather go on stage with a premise or an idea and let the jokes come that way. My creative juices are never flowing any better than when I'm onstage.”
“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.”
“Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the ***** was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.”
“If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.”

Source : "Interview with Lou Ferrigno, Two-Time Mr. Universe and TVs "The Hulk"". Interview with Paul Dybala, www.audiologyonline.com. April 3, 2006.
“Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal,Â are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.”
“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”
“Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.”

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