“In preliterate civilizations, people attempted to live their lives and appease their gods with no real sense of the rules. They just did what they could, sacrificing animals and even children along the way to appease the gods they didn't understand. The invention of text gave them a set of rules to…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“For most of the Middle Ages in Europe, the elite spoke and wrote in Latin. The masses did not. They spoke local, or vernacular, languages— what we now call French, German, and English. What was important to the elites was thus inaccessible to the masses. The most 'important' texts were understood by…”— Lawrence Lessig, amazon.com