Designer Quote by Larry Wall

As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.

— Shahid Khan

I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.

— Marcia Gay Harden

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

— Guido van Rossum

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

— Larry Wall

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

— Albert Ellis

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

— Andy Hobsbawm

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

— Rob Pike

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

— Niklaus Wirth

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

— Amitava Kumar

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any…

— Robert A. Heinlein