"Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."

-- Douglas McIlroy

#Writing Quotes #Program Quotes #Streams Quotes

“Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?”
“One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.”
“I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.”
“By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.”
“I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.”
“I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.”
“We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.”
“If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.”

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