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“We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.”

Way Ideas Character Use Reality Language Loses Depends Messages Tasks Strive Communicate Objectives Description Scope Discernment Our Words Suspended

Author:Niels Bohr

“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?”

Different Use Values Language Force Essentials Degrees Shadow Assuming Appearance Painter Sufficient Opposition Shade Rationality Lighters True And False Different Values

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.”

Made Facts Use Language Easier Horrible Crap Programmers

Author:Linus Torvalds

“C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.”

Enough Helping Use Language Simple Direct Spots Programming Constructs Programming Languages Inconvenient

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.”

People Use Language Sound Magic Comfortable Rational Acceptable Uneasy Estrangement

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.”

Use Language Force Interest Information Authority Computer Machines Pollution Topics Examination Storage

Author:Saul Gorn

“A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.”

Should Doe Use Language Term Currents Chinese Greek Territory Scholar Venture Propositions Peril Alphabet Uncharted Treading Uncharted Territory Chinese Language

Author:Eric A. Havelock

“How often have I rattled on with God and said nothing at all? Relying on clichés, throwaway phrases, and high language I'd never use in everyday conversation, I took prayer for granted and lost sight of the wondrous opportunity to draw close to God.”

Said Use Opportunity Lost Language Prayer Conversation Draws Sight Everyday Granted Phrases Wondrous

Author:Margaret Feinberg

“Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.”

Book Different Use Purpose Language Masters Senses Servant Convenient

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.”

Ifs Way Years Use Literature Speak Language Scene Sentences Paragraph Typing

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.”

Way Trying Use Happens Speak Language Fun Fans Basketball Nba Fun Things

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare.”

World Way Should Use Law Values Language Nations Principles Constitution Abortion Rooted Homosexuality Founding Disputes Adultery

Author:David Plotz

“Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!”

World Needs Use Bigs School Language Teach Study Doors Dog Communication India Links Hindi Small Dogs

Author:C. N. Annadurai