Technology Quote by C.A.R. Hoare

“There was nothing to be done. From then on, there were flowers waiting for me every time we met, and in the end I…

— Milan Kundera

“...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be more dismaying…

— John Barth

“Flowers have a language that everyone can understand—the language of beauty and love.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having…

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

“It wasn't as if the flowers themselves held within them the ability to bring an abstract definition into physical reality. Instead, it seemed that...expecting…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs. Long sentences…

— Harry Beckwith

“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even…

— Ralph Fletcher

“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied,…

— Richard Powers

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind…

— Anne Waldman