Awful Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language…

— Margaret Wise Brown

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

— John Dryden

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I…

— Elias Canetti

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

— Nate Lowman

Working with language requires beauty for me.

— Herta Muller

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

— George Eliot

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

— Maya Angelou

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty…

— Eric S. Raymond

I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends,…

— Naomi Alderman

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

— Edmund Burke