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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
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
— Sarah Churchwell
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
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
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.
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
I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.
— Pattiann Rogers
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 that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.
— Wladimir Klitschko
