Language Quotes
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
Bernard MalamudBernard Malamud The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.
Blake ButlerBlake Butler Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
Bjarne StroustrupBjarne Stroustrup We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
Billie Joe ArmstrongBillie Joe Armstrong Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
Bjarne StroustrupBjarne Stroustrup Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.
Bertrand MeyerBertrand Meyer A data structure is just a stupid programming language.
Bill GosperBill Gosper With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
Bjarne StroustrupBjarne Stroustrup When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.
Brad SteigerBrad Steiger There is a pride in speaking this language.
Bernard PivotBernard Pivot I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.
Bobby McFerrinBobby McFerrin French was my first language.
Bob CousyBob Cousy Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
William JamesWilliam James All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Benjamin JowettBenjamin Jowett But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
Bob GoffBob Goff