Is Code Language?

Quotes on Code

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” — Fred Brooks

“The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever” — Donald Knuth

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” — Grace Hopper

Quotes on Language

"Because the process of knowing is inseparable from "languaging," in the new education, language (i.e., all forms of symbolic codification) is regarded as the mediator of all human perception and is used as a unifying and continuing focus of all student inquiry." — Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." — Noam Chomsky

“Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” — Steven Pinker

"Language disguises thought." — Ludwig Wittgenstein