Computer language Quote by Alan Perlis

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

— Paul Graham

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework…

— Hal Abelson

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing

A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything…

— Raymond Simard

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

— Anonymous

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper