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Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.