“Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.”

“Mirroring the body language of the interviewers may be a way of increasing rapport and making them feel more receptive towards you.”

“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other - by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”

“Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.”

“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.”