Culture Quote by Herbert Marcuse

This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an…

— Herbert Marcuse

“The methodological benefits of functional languages are well known [Bac78, Hug89, HJ94], but still the vast majority of programs are written in imperative languages…

— Chris Okasaki

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

— Theodor Adorno

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the…

— Frank Luntz

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

— Rob Pike

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if…

— Mark Twain

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

— J. L. Austin

This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It…

— Herbert Marcuse

The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently…

— Edsger Dijkstra

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.

— John O'Donohue