"Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C"

-- Eric S. Raymond

#Alternatives Quotes #Layers Quotes #Language Quotes

“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.”
“There was this one model in French Elle. I canâ€™t imagine what it must be like to be her. She was brunette with big lips and was wearing this tight navy dress by Azzedine someone. She was so beautiful; and the choices she must have. andâ€¦Oh, I would give it all up just to have been born that way because her life will be so easy. She wonâ€™t have to think, and men will fall into her lap andâ€¦Itâ€™s all unfair and I donâ€™t want to even write it. It will never change, and no one wants to admit it but being thin and pretty is the best thing a woman can be.”
“You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.”
“Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.”
“You cannot schedule death.”
“I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.”
“I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....”
“I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.”

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