Language Quotes

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The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..." — Christopher Titus
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing,… — Giuseppe Mazzini
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people… — Thomas Jefferson
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be.… — James P Hackett
Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and… — Unknown Author
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a… — Walter Savage Landor
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more. — Bjarne Stroustrup
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we… — Brian Kernighan
C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli. — Unknown Author
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. — Alan Kay
A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. — Larry Wall
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ — Unknown Author
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl. — Larry Wall
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can… — Larry Wall
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. — Unknown Author
It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are. — Unknown Author
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. — Rob Pike
His heart is kind and those big hands are soft. He speaks a language that can change what I believe. — Amanda Marshall

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