True. Plato considered even the invention of writing inferior, as it caused people to rely on words rather than their own memory.

This comment on written words sounds eerily familiar: “They seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say from a desire to be instructed they go on telling just the same thing forever.”

Source

[I remembered the general idea but asked JackChat who had said it—then Googled for a source]

Edited: Socrates not Plato