Ever since the arrival of printing – thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into peoples minds – people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. – David Crystal
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. – David Crystal
Academics dont normally manage to alter peoples way of thinking through their strength of argument. – David Crystal
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970