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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
Alan Kay
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay
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When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
Warwick Thornton
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My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language they're controlled, toward an end.
Barry Hannah
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I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.
John Dryden
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
Alan Perlis
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I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.
Alan Bennett
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Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
William Shakespeare
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is useless to read Greek in translation translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
Virginia Woolf
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The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.
C. S. Lewis
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It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles
Bjarne Stroustrup
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
Samuel Johnson
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Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.
William Shawn
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Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
Al Swearengen
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I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
William Stafford
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
Roman Jakobson
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I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
Al Pacino
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Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
William Stanley Jevons
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
William Strunk, Jr.
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al Pacino
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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
William T. Wiley
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It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.
Henry David Thoreau
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