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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.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.