#lang

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. ↗

— William Gibson

#language #light #mind #more #than

My use of language is part and parcel of my message. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#message #parcel #part #use

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that. ↗

— Thora Hird

#anything #foul #good #i #language

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#could #crushed #especially #etiquette #feel

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#meditation #our #soul #spirit #tongue

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. ↗

— John Denham

#evaporate #into #language #out #poetry

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#carried #coding #creates #future #generation

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#browse #countries #different #different countries #enough

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language. ↗

— Henry Longhurst

#foreign language #golf #language #learning #like