Quotes by Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

Explore a curated collection of 6 quotes by Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clum — Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with — Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a ty — Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display — Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, il — Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information — Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17