Would you ever purposefully misappropriate syntax?

“Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you…

— David Geary

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a…

— Patrice Pavis

“You must know in what way you are going to use the morphology and syntax to build your 'how”

— Frederick Vanderbuilt

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and…

— Jerry Garcia

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the…

— Michel Foucault

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

[Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax.…

— Sandra Cisneros

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other…

— James Lovelock

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images…

— Allen Ginsberg

since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?

— e. e. cummings

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

“A like N.B. that Ewell ends up inserting under the heading Biker is that every professional tattooist everybody who can remember getting their tattoos…

— David Foster Wallace

“Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.”

— Janet Peery

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

— Dennis Ritchie

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

— Bram Cohen