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I have never designed a language for its own sake.

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.