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I couldn't get along with the French.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.