[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.” — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Dabbling with Tagore was always scary. It happens with masters, with contemporary poets you know their vibes and their meaning. Tagore was… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
It's not a coincidence these two industry areas - Silicon Valley and Hollywood - use the same jargon. They share a common… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
“Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E L James Copy Share Image
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“without forgetting the "f" word which some overdosed victims and patients of it misuse it as a verb, an adverb, a simile,… — Besto Muzenda Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“So words play a very important part in our lives. Our life, it appears, is a network of complicated, interrelated words. Words… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image