language
The more powerful communication technologies become, the more people will fight wars over words instead of territory. Language, when wielded at scale, is among man's most powerful weapons.
From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The world is built by those who can think, but it is ran by those who can articulate.
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace