“ Language has everything to do with oppression and liberation. When the word "victory" means conquer vs. harmony and the word "equality" means homogenization vs. unity in/through diversity, then the li… Cristina Marrero
“ Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness. Philip Zaleski
“ Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete? Nataly Kelly
“ Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of Go… Stephen Fry
“ Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator. Nataly Kelly
“ If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong. Noam Chomsky
“ The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for territory, but rather "opens things up to the light of Heaven" by flowing with the words, by playing with the words. Once attune… Hakim Bey
“ Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor.But then the mother called them,colorless green ideas slepp furiously. Umberto Eco
