"Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument."

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Source : "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

David Crystal

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.”
“I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldnâ€™t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.”
“Record making is an extraordinary experience.”
“I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.”
“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.”
“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”
“I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.”
“Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.”

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