Antithesis Quote by James Lovelock

“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.”

— John Humphrys

“skill-building” approaches, which feature explicit instruction in the formal aspects of language, have a poor record of success. Hence the dismal results of most…

— James Crawford

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort…

— Donald A. Norman

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but…

— Hal Abelson

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

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

— Andrew Weil

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

— Wally Amos

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful…

— Bill Gates

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Larry Wall

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds…

— Marvin Minsky