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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever en

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. – Joshua Foer

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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. – Joshua Foer

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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But thats not the same thing as wisdom. – Joshua Foer

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Future
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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records. – Richard Thompson

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The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. – Townsend Harris

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It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, whats the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt. – Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. – George Carlin

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