“You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!”

“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”

“Love is a verb… and Verbs show action”

“You can wordify anything, if you just verb it.”

“I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.”

“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”

“And if you ever need a friend then you got me And in the end, when I die, would you watch me? And if I try suicide, would you stop me? Would you help me get a grip or would you drop me?”

“If you would cause your view … to be acknowledged by scientific men; you would do a great service to science. If you would even get them to say yes or no to your conclusions it would help to clear the future progress. I believe some hesitate because they do not like their thoughts disturbed.”

“I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.”

“59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”