Art Quote by Raymond Simard

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

The greatest single programming language ever designed

— Alan Kay

“Pascal (Object Pascal - Free Pascal) for real programmers, Delphi for Nerds... C/C++ for people who always wishes to do things like reinventing the…

— Rejie Roque

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

— Paul Graham

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework…

— Hal Abelson

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is.…

— Richard Stallman

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

— Anonymous

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

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

— Dennis Ritchie

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

— Peter Norvig