Anything can happen Quote by August Strindberg

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

“There's certain structured language that will enable us to do all current impossibles. Unfortunately, it's not that we use nowadays. The good news is,…

— Toba Beta

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

— Robert W. Floyd

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Ellen Ullman

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language,…

— Paul Vixie

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort…

— Donald A. Norman

“Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

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

— Seymour Papert

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie