Other Languages Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once… — Richard Stallman
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. — Jeff B. Davis
Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed… — Eric S. Raymond
I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. — Andy Lau
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an… — Sam Hamill
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
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
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. — David Crystal
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing… — Guido van Rossum
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. — Victor Hugo
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. — Naguib Mahfouz
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult. — Rafael Nadal
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — Booker T. Washington
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many… — Sydney J. Harris
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. — KatÃ³ Lomb
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in… — Lev Grossman
We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies… — John Whitehead
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes… — Eddy Peters

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