Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 475 authors

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words… — James Lovelock
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup
Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it nevertheless be possible… — Joost Meerloo
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us. — Terence McKenna
They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages! — Alex Ferguson
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. — Rabindranath Tagore
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar… — Richard Bach
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are… — Richard Rorty
When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness;… — Khalil Gibran
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in… — George Bernard Shaw
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless… — Scott Fahlman
I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties. — Yigal Azrouel
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. — Sophie Swetchine
Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots,… — Fulcher of Chartres
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in… — Douglas J. Futuyma
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is… — A. R. Rahman
Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages,… — Patricia K. Kuhl
Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days. — Patricia Ryan

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