6410 Quotes & Sayings

Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes. — Ellen Ullman

Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering — Francine Rivers

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. — David Gross

Everything has a reason; but the moment to know the reason would be revealed the day dots are connected. — Vikrmn

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself. — Julian Cope

You are nearly there," said James. "Very close. We are ... so proud of you. — J.K. Rowling

It's may we live as long as we want, and never want as long as we live, — M.R. Carey

Giulio was against our meeting. He didn't want me getting mixed up in things that, in his opinion, were no concern of mine. For decades the respectable people here did nothing but repeat that the Mafia was no concern of theirs but only involved the people involved in it. But I used to teach my pupils that the see-nothing, know-nothing attitude is the most mortal of sins. So now that its my turn to tell what I saw, I'm supposed to take a step back? — Andrea Camilleri

A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation - the degree to which he naturally removes himself from mass-media input and stimuli. You cannot be an elitist, a Magician, and be plugged into the system. — Anton Szandor LaVey