Better Quote by Derek Sivers

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

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

— Larry Wall

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

— Marvin Minsky

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

“Programming language is to the computer ; speaking in tongue is to God”

— Adewale Osunsakin

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent…

— Gabe Newell

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

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

— John Ousterhout

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

— Anonymous

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

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