Quotes by Language Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C Eric S. Raymond layersalternativeslanguage C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on. Erik Naggum designlanguagesimple Lexicographers are language reporters. Erin McKean lexicographerreporterslanguage All language is a popularity contest. Erin McKean contestspopularitylanguage Language is a nice way to remember things. Erin McKean nicelanguageway Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? Erica Jong menacephraseslanguage What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language. Ernest Klein elementslanguagesound language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. Erica Jong poetlanguagepersons Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. Ernst Mayr societylanguagelittles All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is. Erol Alkan all-the-bestbandlanguage All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world. Errol Morris captionlanguageworld Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. Errol Morris falsityconcernlanguage Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade. Errol Morris usedlanguageends When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. Etgar Keret languagestorieswriting I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language. Erich Fromm clarityappreciatelanguage There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. Eugene Schwartz audiencelanguageuse You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are. Etgar Keret languageuseneeds It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time. Eugene Delacroix languagespeakspirit Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. Etgar Keret hebrewlanguageunique It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. Eugenio Montale poeticcuttinglanguage«2728293031323334353637»
