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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language delays or lack of social engagement. Recent research suggests that autism can be detected during the first year of life, even before classic symptoms emerge. Indeed, the symptoms may be a late stage of autism.

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

I know what the structure of the language is.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

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.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.