Design Quote by Guido van Rossum

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

— Niklaus Wirth

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

— Larry Wall

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure,…

— Ivan Chermayeff

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the…

— Guido van Rossum

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn…

— Dennis Ritchie

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

— Alison Mosshart

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the…

— Joshua Foer

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

— Tibor Kalman

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language,…

— Leni Zumas

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

— Paul Westerberg

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

— Larry Wall