Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Ricky Gervais

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'

Diane von Furstenberg

Generosity is the best investment.

Carolina Herrera

I can get ready in 10 minutes.

Alan Perlis

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Charles Lamb

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Brian Kernighan

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

Scott Lewis

There are 1,400 troops here. It's so crazy. I got guys saluting me, and I'm standing here in my big old gardening hat,

Eve Best

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Marcelene Cox

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Blake Shelton

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Ken Thompson

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

Clive Anderson

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Claude Monet

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

David Gower

I started gardening with my grandmother when I was 6,

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.