“The most important tool you have on a resume is language.”

“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.”

“The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.”

“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

“You need to know at least one foreign language well enough so that you can read the best literature that that language has produced in the original, and so you carry on a reasonable conversation and have dreams in that language. There are several reasons why this is crucial, but the most important is perhaps this: you can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”

“The most important thing about organizations is that, though they are tools, each nevertheless has a life of its own.”

“The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence”

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”

“Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.”

“Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.”