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Howard Rheingold
American writer and editor
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
If you want to change the way people think, you can educate them, brainwash them, bribe them, drug them. Or you can teach them a few carefully chosen new words.
—Howard Rheingold, American writer and editor, They Have a Word For It, 1988

Posted on October 6, 2003 at 8:01 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
—Howard Rheingold, American writer and editor, They Have a Word For It, 1988

Posted on May 15, 1999 at 6:10 AM

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