Language to the mind is more than light is to the eye.

— Anne Sullivan in William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker (1959)

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

— George Boole (1854)

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

— Alan Perlis (1982)

“I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin”.

— Alice, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1895) by Lewis Carroll