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A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language. — John Henry Newman

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. — George Carlin

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. — Maya Angelou

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do! — Naomi Shihab Nye

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language. — George Bernard Shaw

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. — Chris Crutcher

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently. — Dorothee Solle

The language of feelings is not linear, logical, and verbal like the language of thinking. — Deborah Sandella

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages. — William Golding

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story. — Etgar Keret

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Your language indicates--and limits--what you think. — Jonathan Price

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports. — Antonio Banderas

We think in one language and feel in another. — Marty Rubin

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — David Nicholls

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language. — Aleksandar Hemon

Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people. — Barbara Oakley

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. — Grant Morrison

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. — Martin Heidegger

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language. — Margaret Cho

I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish. — Ruben Aguilar

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being. — Antonio Machado

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. — Philip Greenspun

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it. — Walter Lang

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people. — Adrian Lyne

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking. — Neville Brody

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language. — Larry Wall

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story) ... — Shari Wiedmann

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that. — David Rees

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer. — Leni Zumas

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think. — Billy Connolly

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A.S. Byatt

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick

I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking. — Aurora Guerrero

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense. — Peter Slezak

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence. — Lynne Tillman

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. — Humphry Davy

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human. — ZZ Packer

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song. — Sandra Bullock

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. — Benjamin Lee Whorf

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly. — Kim Hyesoon

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways. — Pattiann Rogers

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. — Bill Vaughan

Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. — David Nicholls

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language. — Sally Potter

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. — Wladimir Klitschko

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at. — Mary Mattingly

The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm. — Lady Gregory