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The genius of writing was the moment somebody realised a picture could stand for a sound rather than for a thing.

Drawn from what Irving Finkel said

Subjectinnovation
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innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

What Irving Finkel actually said

  1. Irving Finkel Assyriologist at the British Museum
    And once they had the idea that you could write sounds with pictures, that’s the crucial thing, that a picture of a foot not only meant foot but it meant the sound of the word for foot.

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