Aspect Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Seymour Papert

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

— Alan Perlis

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

“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in…

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework…

— Hal Abelson

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

— Anonymous

Language is the tool of the tools

— Lev S. Vygotsky

“Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings”

— Danny Dover

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

— Donald Knuth

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert

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