Computer Quote by John Ousterhout

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Dennis Ritchie

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

— Larry Niven

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

— Anonymous

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

— Fred Brooks

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

— Niklaus Wirth

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

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

“I’ve programmed in all kinds of languages, said the tough old hacker as he eased up to the bar, and it don’t matter which…

— Paul Graham

“We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of…

— Paul Graham

I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.

— Tang Wei