Quotes About Language

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

Silence is God's first language.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwhiches? All-encompassingly...

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.'

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone.