“Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.”

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it’s procedural.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.