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.
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.