Language Quotes

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It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process… — Seth Lloyd
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions — Dean Kamen
The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. — E. O. Wilson
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. — Tony Hoare
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy… — Niklaus Wirth
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate… — Niklaus Wirth
I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is… — Niklaus Wirth
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about… — Dennis Ritchie
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors… — Dennis Ritchie
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... — Larry Wall
To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it. — Unknown Author
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Donâ€™t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from… — David Gerrold
If I have a foreign accentâ€”which I much regretâ€”it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my… — Sarah Bernhardt
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. — Raymond Williams
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a… — Arthur Koestler
Jazz is the language of the emotions. — Charles Mingus
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel… — Roy Haynes

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