Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 473 authors

He who has two languages has two souls. — Quintus Ennius
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was… — Aravind Adiga
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
To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love… — Pope Francis
For this the Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands â€“ and to use them… — Pope Francis
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. — Roman Jakobson
Sampling is a new way of doing something thatâ€™s been with us for a long time [â€¦] The mix breaks free from the old associations.… — DJ Spooky
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things. — Larry Wall
Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into… — William Tyndale
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent… — Daryl Hall
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. — Larry Wall
Googleâ€™s objective is to organize the worldâ€™s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the… — Vinton Cerf
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky
Humanity must never lose hope. Our present conflicts and differences are difficult but not hopeless. We cannot expect people of such different races, cultures, languages,… — Robert Muller
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which… — Paul Vixie
Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda,… — Douglas Coupland
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities… — William T. Wiley
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis

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