"Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic."

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Rob Pike

#Trying Quotes #Language Quotes #Programming Quotes

“I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.”
“writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.”

Source : Mari Sandoz (1992). “Letters of Mari Sandoz”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press
“You'll never get rich by working for your boss.”
“People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.”
“In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.”
“I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.”
“The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.”
“Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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