Quote of the day
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.
Jeanne Martinet

Born: March 24, 1920
Died: November 6, 2018 (aged 98)
Bio: Jeanne Martinet was a French semiotician and a proprietor of a semiotics school. Her husband was the eminent linguist André Martinet.
Known for:
- The Art of Mingling (1992)
- Truer than true romance (2001)
- Etiquette for the End of the World (2012)
- The faux pas survival guide (1996)