Computer Quote by Dennis Ritchie

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

— Anonymous

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall

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.…

— Richard Stallman

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

The idea of a language more simple than ours.

— John Dudley

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

— Richard E. Pattis

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

— John Ousterhout

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

— Alan Perlis

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

— Andrew Weil

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and…

— Douglas Crockford

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

— Derek Sivers

“I’ve programmed in all kinds of languages, said the tough old hacker as he eased up to the bar, and it don’t matter which…

— Paul Graham