What is it like to hear the words you're dumb, you're stupid? That comes to be their understanding of themselves.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.

Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only be experienced wordlessly... The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are supreme.

It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when,

It represents a huge new opportunity here,