The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
“And then along came Hemingway. What a thrill! He knew how to lay down a line. It was a joy. Words weren’t… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that's the job of the writer, right? Not to introduce new ideas or feelings, but to name the ones we… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
I am not patriotic or nationalistic, but the French language is like a country where I take refuge when I have nowhere… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
“(About "Black Debt" by Steve McCaffery) 'Impersonal' as this text is, it is by no means unemotional or uninvolved. We learn nothing--… — Marjorie Perloff Copy Share Image
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to… — Tommy Smothers Copy Share Image
“We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and… — Antero Alli Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language,… — Joshua Henkin Copy Share Image
Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“A crucial point here is that understanding is not only a matter of reflection, using finitary propositions, on some preexistent, already determinate… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our words are similar to wells, and those wells can accommodate the most diverse waters: cataracts, drizzles of other times, oceans that… — César Calvo Copy Share Image
As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
