Vleck Quotes & Sayings

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite. — Mae West

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If dolphins tasted good," he said, "we wouldn't even know about their language. — Lorrie Moore

You learn something every day, unless you're careful. — Tom Van Vleck

It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you. — K.J. Kilton

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.' — Stacy Schiff

The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so. — Dr. Seuss

I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'" — Tom Van Vleck

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply. — Tom Van Vleck

The public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature ... A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power! — Romain Rolland

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself. — Justina Chen

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. — Tom Van Vleck

It is true when you are by yourself and you think about life, it is always sad. All that excitement and so on has a way of suddenly leaving you, and it's as though, in the silence, somebody called your name, and you heard your name for the first time. — Katherine Mansfield

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck

It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson."How do you manage? — Janet Kagan

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner. — Mark Gatiss

One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door. — John H. Van Vleck

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested. — David Steinberg

God, she wanted to tackle him and roll around in him like a cat in a field of daisies. — Rainbow Rowell