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Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

As humans we speak one language.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

As was his language so was his life.

As writers we need to crack open language.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.