#language

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#advice #compiler #designing #for the people #general

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#background #because #economics #get #journalism

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever. ↗

— Ron Silver

#activity #area #because #before #chinese

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. ↗

— Buddy Holly

#beauty #i #interested #language #stump

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. ↗

— June Jordan

#by the time #extremely #i #important #language

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. ↗

— Andy Lau

#i #languages #many #other #similar

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#any #customs #form #intensive #jews

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#another #another way #different #language #learning

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#flowers #i #i love #language #love