So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the hum…

- E. J. W. Barber

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until cl…

- E. J. W. Barber

Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silen…

- E. J. W. Barber

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.

- E. J. W. Barber

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

- E. J. W. Barber

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house desig…

- E. J. W. Barber