Computer Quote by Charles Simonyi

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

— Kathy Acker

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

— Anonymous

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

— Paul Graham

My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming…

— Anders Hejlsberg

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

— Alan Kay

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

A language is everything you do.

— Margaret Atwood

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore…

— Donald Davidson

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa