Therby Quotes & Sayings

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work. — Robert Fano

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you. — Daniel Wallace

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity. — Emile M. Cioran

He's been hung up on a one-night-stand he had five years ago with a girl that smelled like Cocoa Puffs. — Tara Sivec

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. — Sri Aurobindo

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows! — Lee Hsien Loong

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty. — Sun Bu'er

Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that ... everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man. — Theodore Dalrymple

I don't know what they are. They aren't completely human, so I don't know what to call them." I pulled one of the bags over the man's head, then rolled it down to his waist. My fingers brushed Clare's; the feel of her skin sent a warm tingle firing up my arms. I met her gaze, and without thinking too much about it, I slid my right hand over hers. God, I had missed her.
"Owen, there is a dead body between us," she said, her gaze never straying from mine.
"Best be thankful for that, flower." I pushed down everything I wanted to say. There wasn't time, and her bloody kitchen definitely wasn't the place. — Elizabeth Morgan

Inside its crumbling walls the house is riddled with bullet holes, and in its garden only the crimson dahlias still hold their heads high. Jing is lying on a chaise longue [sic] playing with his bird.
'I thought you were in prison.'
He looks up, his eyes filled with hate and desire.
'You are my prison. — Shan Sa

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point. — Mason Cooley

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. — Criss Jami

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing - when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning. — Markus Zusak

One of the disconcerting and delightful teaching of the master was: "God is closer to sinners than to saints."
This is how he explained it: " God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin you cut the string. then God ties it up again, making a knot-and therby bringing you a little closer to him. Again and again your sins cut the string-and with each further knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer. — Ernest Kurtz

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. — John Green