Quotes About Language

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Im going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.