Ambiguous Quote by Larry Wall

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

— Howard Rheingold

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

— Garth Stein

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but…

— Harry Mathews

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

— Larry Wall

Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you…

— Grant Imahara

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

— Paul Allen

A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that…

— Terry Winograd

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

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

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en…

— Noreena Hertz

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a…

— Clifford Stoll