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• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. -- Benjamin Whorf
• We are not so concerned with *what* the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints think, as we are *that* they think.
  -- Hugh B. Brown said something like this....
• A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
• We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do
  largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language....
• We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
  Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it....
• Barclay: "Do you suppose this has changed the way people think about me?
  LaForge: "Well, to tell you the truth, Reg, we don't know what to think....