Program That Reads Quotes & Sayings

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: — William Shakespeare

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain. — Swami Vivekananda

On any given day in Spokane, Washington, there are more adult men per capita riding children's BMX bikes than in any other city in the world. — Jess Walter

Yes, it takes a lot of plant material to make a drop of oil, but a small drop of oil then contains the full force of the entire plant- of all of those plants. When you have a bottle of rose oil, you have the life force of 5,000 pounds of roses. That's a lot of plant. And that means a lot of life. — Andrew Edwin Jenkins

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come ... except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem. — Michael Kosser

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. — Steve Jobs

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain. — Joshua Bloch

You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained! — Israelmore Ayivor

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will. — Francois Rabelais

For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Without style, there can be no identity. — John Kinsella