Design Quote by Larry Wall

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure,…

— Ivan Chermayeff

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

— Elif Batuman

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

— Robert W. Floyd

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

— Paul Allen

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far…

— Margaret Atwood

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

— Jacques Derrida

“When any new language design project is nearing completion, there is always a mad rush to get new features added before standardization. The rush…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

— Louise Bogan

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

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

— Guido van Rossum

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

— Michael J. Sullivan

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind,…

— Oliver Sacks