Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

Alan Watts

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Alan Moore

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

Chloe Sevigny

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

Chogyam Trungpa

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Chin-Ning Chu

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

David McCullough

Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is.

David Guetta

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

C. Wright Mills

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.

Barbara Kingsolver

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

A. J. Jacobs

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

Alice Cooper

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

Eric S. Raymond

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

Helen Mirren

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

Skip Snow

The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator.

Guido van Rossum

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

Guido van Rossum

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Guido van Rossum

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

David Hilal

Web services are only going to work if Java and .Net are going to be interoperable.

Scott Handy

Let's not be confused. We all sit on the same side of the fence: all Java is good, all standards are good.

Dennis Ritchie

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Marc Andreessen

We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.

Jonathan Schwartz

First of all, we're making money with Java now,

John Loiacono

I vehemently disagree. Is Java at the end of life? We think Java is just kicking in.

Miguel de Icaza

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

James Gosling

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala