Important Quote by Donald Knuth

A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything…

— Raymond Simard

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

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

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

— Bram Cohen

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

— Anonymous

“Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named”

— David Simpson

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

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

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is…

— Steven Pinker

The greatest single programming language ever designed

— Alan Kay

A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.

— Jack Hyles

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

— Dale Carnegie