"A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama"

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Source : Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier

Guy Steele

#Hero Quotes #Men Quotes #Camels Quotes

“Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.”
“Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales reps to different parts of the Australian outback. A while later, the company received a telegram from each. The first said, 'No business here - the natives don't wear shoes.' The second said, 'Great opportunity here - the natives don't wear shoes.'”
“The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
“It's in your hands to make the world a better place.”
“If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.”
“If we get too far ahead of ourselves we will fall over.”
“Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!”

Source : Bryan Waller Procter, “A Petition To Time”
“These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient.”

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