Famous quotes containing the words natural, language, programming and/or write:
“Custom is our nature.... What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“This Light inspires, and plays upon
The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
As through a Trunk, or whisp’ring hole,
Such language as no mortal Ear
But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
“Quite unacquainted with the ABC
Than write such hopeless rubbish as thy worst.”
—James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892)