Slants Crossword Quotes & Sayings

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs. — Linus Torvalds

The Greeks, at least by the fourth century BC, knew Britain as Albion. Originally applied to a Spanish tribe called the 'Albiones', the term was later adopted for Britain, perhaps because of its similarity to the Greek word for whiteness, alphos, thanks to the white chalk cliffs of the southeast coast. Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, says that Britain had 'previously' been called Albion, so by then the name must have fallen out of common use.2 By the time Britain began to be referred to more frequently, the Greeks called it Prettannia, or Brettannia.3 What does seem certain is that in the fourth century BC, Pytheas of Massilia (Marseilles) sailed to Britain. Pytheas wrote down his experiences, but these only survive as incidental third-hand references by later writers. Most — Guy De La Bedoyere

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. — Ilka Chase

Chain of command, Synthia. I say it. You do it. End of chain, am I clear? — Amelia Hutchins

When I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. — Julia Cameron

was a long upper hall full — Louisa May Alcott

Is it beautiful?"
"Really weird. But don't get hung up on the angels. They're mostly assholes. — Ian Tregillis

They kill. To feel safe. It almost never worked. — Louise Penny

... there was something superior even in his injustice, and absolute in his mistakes. — Henry James

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!' — Domhnall Gleeson

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Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it. — Robert Greene

Don't you think you should at least get dressed?"
"Don't you think you should at least give me my shirt then?" -Cash — M. Leighton