Geoffrey Nunberg Quotes

United Kingdom, Linguist
June 1, 1945 – August, 11, 2020.

Geoffrey Nunberg was an American linguist, researcher and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Nunberg has taught at Stanford University and served as a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from the mid-1980s to 2000.

Few people become assholes reluctantly.

Geoffrey Nunberg
- People
- Assholes
There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

Geoffrey Nunberg

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

Geoffrey Nunberg
- Writing
- Culture
- Interest
When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

Geoffrey Nunberg
When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

Geoffrey Nunberg
- Fashion
- Managers
- Rugged