Quotes by Syntax What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure Aaron Betsky structure syntax law A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax. Denis Donoghue syntax expression art I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax. Dennis Ritchie syntax uncertain language There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. Dorothy Parker best-years-of-your-life syntax study since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things? e. e. cummings who-cares syntax feelings who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you e. e. cummings syntax kissing attention Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes. Erik Naggum syntax different people The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. Fernando J. Corbato syntax levels use A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine. Fred Brooks syntax dumb men Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. Gordon Allport violation syntax science Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region. Israel Shenker syntax vocabulary quality I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations. Jerry Fodor syntax virtue process If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax. Jerry Garcia syntax space thinking Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. John Steinbeck republic syntax lad Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own. Jorge Luis Borges syntax annoyed voice The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. Lister Sinclair dialect syntax vocabulary The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker syntax musical sound When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. Marilyn Hacker syntax together looks A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. Marya Mannes syntax language office The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence. Michel Foucault syntax silence broken 12»
