Rogrammers Quotes & Sayings

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover? — Arianna Huffington

One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul language is forgivable (though it is bad). But rude language cannot be forgiven. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. — John Oates

We're going to spend the rest of our lives together in my head: a love story — Melissa Broder

My unhappiness was something deep inside me, and when i closed my eyes i could even see it. it sat somehwere - maybe in my belly, maybe in my heart; i could not exactly tell - and it took the shape of a small black ball, all wrapped up in cobwebs. i would look at it and look at it until i had burned the cobwebs away, and then i would see that the ball was no bigger than a thimble, even though it weighed worlds. at that moment, just when i saw its size and felt its weight, i was beyond feeling sorry for myself, which is to say i was beyond tears. i could only just sit and look at myself, feeling like the oldest person who had ever lived and who had not learned a single thing. — Jamaica Kincaid

Besides, it seemed to him that the society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. He — Leo Tolstoy

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. — George Santayana

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you. — Elbert Hubbard

I love you," she cried softly. "No one else, baby, not like this, not the way I've always loved you."
"How much do you love me?" he asked hoarsely ...
"You already know," she whimpered. "You're everything to me, everything, you always have been, baby ... — Madeline Sheehan

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings. — Rajneesh

rogrammers have "theories" about how software will behave when they change a line of code. Those theories rarely hold up to their first encounter with reality. Unsuccessful programmers could probably wax eloquent about how things should be different. Successful programmers just debug their code. Such a profession would quickly wean a person from idealistic notions about how to make a change. Successful programmers soon learn that it is more profitable to challenge their own thinking than to curse their computers when faced with unexpected results. There is no reason that communities could not formulate policy in a similar way. Two reasons that it is not is because of our still rudimentary understanding of system dynamics and our insistence on placing blame on individuals rather than trying to understand systems. — Ron Davison

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor. — Kathy Giusti

Labor is the true standard of value. — Abraham Lincoln