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"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"There is a pride in speaking this language."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway."
Time
"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
Death
"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."
Language
"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."
Design
"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
Law
"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."
Art
"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."
Career
"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."
Fun
"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."
Music
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
Humor
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