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- We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we…
- Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution…
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- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale
- I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak… — Bono
- You who speak languages, you are such liars. — Orson Scott Card
- I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. — Maya Angelou
- Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now… — Corrie Ten Boom
- The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie
- what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson
- We only speak two languages here: English and profanity. — Kevin Constantine
- Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made… — Dave Barry
- Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign… — Yao Ming