Adrienne

“Language's only known predator is other people: many languages have been stamped out or imposed on others through war or conquest.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Writing and weaving are both acts of creation by bringing together. A storyteller is a spinner of yarns, and the internet's founding metaphor is of a web.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language