Portable Ops Quotes & Sayings

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. — Frank Herbert

Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by the view from our elevation - off west the lights of Montana, Hungry Horse, and Columbia Falls, and farmsteads along the northern edge of Flathead Lake, and back in the direction of sunrise the soft and misted valleys of the parklands, not an electric light showing: little enough to preserve for the wanderings of a great and sacred animal who can teach us, if nothing else, by his power and his dilemma, a little common humility. — William Kittredge

We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either. — Linda Howard

Plato understood love as a powerful engine that can destroy mankind or turn us to the good. Christ made that turn possible, and Spenser shows what can be done in the human soul if we take it. — John Mark Reynolds

Writing is a holy occupation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever your condition, you can be happy if you have the right attitude. — Al Koran

I was weeping as much for him as her: we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. — Emily Bronte

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday. — Wayne Brady

A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country. — L. Ron Hubbard