Programming Quote by Robin Sloan

“No new world without a new language.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.”

— Kevlin Henney

“with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system,…

— Nicholas Ostler

“Notae Saibot means life in my own language”

— Nerd 4

“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought…

— Georges Limbour

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“Show me the person who invented English and then from there you can start judging my intellect by it.”

— Evans Biya

“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.”

— Mark Abley

“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall