Cuneiform Quotes

Reading in the third millennium B. C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense. (Julian Jaynes)
You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those. View quote
Mel Brooks
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform. View quote
Julian Jaynes
There is a complete lack of reference to business profits or loss in any of the cuneiform tablets that have been so far translated. View quote
Julian Jaynes