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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nature

Human nature

Language

Speech

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Life

Language

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

Paul Westerberg

Time

Language

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

Timothy West

Language

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Nathanael West

Language

Numbers

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Larry Wall

Work

Language

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

Language

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.