" The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural history. Tools are meant to be surpassed by better tools. Once they are, they should be preserved in a museum of technology, of human ingenuity, of the cultural past. "

― Martin Puchner , The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate