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"I was at an AI conference. All these academic researchers were arguing about natural language processing. They were arguing about it as if language was their personal property, something that they’d inherited along with their degrees and official membership in “the discipline.” I remember

getting angry. I remember thinking about the cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira, about dictionaries as a form of lexical archeology, about Indoeuropean etymologies that went back the steppes of Asia, to people who rode into battle bareback and made up words for the sounds their swords and axes made, for the sounds of love, for the sounds of the night. 

And I thought, who do these hosers think they are? These long-winded doctors of philosophy with their anemic propositions and their feeble proofs. I walked away and never looked back."

Extraído de Gonzo Marketing. 

Esse tipo de discussão acontece entre historiadores. E cada vez que isso acontece penso no quanto os historiadores perdem tempo em não olhar para o que está acontecendo on-line. As pessoas estão fazendo e praticando história na internet. E sem os historiadores. 

Eu acho ótimo.