#lang

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

Numbers constitute the only universal language. ↗

— Nathanael West

#language #numbers #only #universal #universal language

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#both #composition #dialect #english #english language

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#needed #power #times

The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks. ↗

— Solange nicole

#life #magic #mystery-of-life #solange #life

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#approach #based #careful #come #convinced

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#device #experience #framework #language #reporting

Language is wine upon the lips. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#lips #upon #wine

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#actually #build #computer #could #did

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead-language #death #eulogy #funeral #funny