2,489 Quotes About Language
- Author Andrew Solomon
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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- Author Anne Sexton
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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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- Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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- Author Bjarne Stroustrup
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More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.
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- Author Bjarne Stroustrup
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Consequently, a general-purpose programming language should support a variety of ways of thinking and a variety of programming styles.
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- Author Doug Scofield
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It's meant to be sincere. It's meant to speak to real people in real language and talk about things that matter.
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- Author Ferdinand de Saussure
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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- Author George Santayana
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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