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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. – Alan J. Perlis

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. – Marcellinus Ammianus

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