David Crystal
Biography
Quotes
- As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
- Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
- Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
