Quote of the day
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
Geoffrey Sampson

Born: 1944 (age 82)
Bio: Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. He produces annotation standards for compiling corpora of ordinary usage of the English language.
Known for:
- Schools of linguistics (1980)
- Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (1985)
- English for the computer (1995)
- Empirical linguistics (2001)






