"I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate"

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Dennis Ritchie

#Fate Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.”

Source : Wayne Thomas Batson, Christopher Hopper (2009). “Curse of the Spider King: The Berinfell Prophecies Series - Book One”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.”
“We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.”
“I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.”
“You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.”
“Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.”
“You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.”

Source : "'See you next summer': Alex Hirsch says goodbye to Gravity Falls". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?”

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