Language Technology Quotes

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.

For Mandarin scripts, there's software now where you can just insert the Chinese script, and it comes out all in pinyin.

Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.