3 Quotes by 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, silently, continuously.

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.

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