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"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." »Larry Wall
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"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)" »Larry Wall in
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"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." »Anonymous
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"This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended." »Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
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"SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out." »Ken Thompson
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"There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well." »Pliny the Younger
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"The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O." »Martin Mull
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"A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by." »John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke"
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"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop." »Mark Twain
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"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't." »Ernest Hemingway
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor." »William Orville Douglas
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"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." »Jack Lemmon
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"write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." »Arabic Parable
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"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN." »Anonymous
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"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." »Walt Disney
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"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code." »Dan Salomon
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"write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves." »Mark S. Hertzog
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"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." »A. J. Liebling
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"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it." »Carl Sandburg
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"We do not write because we want to we write because we have to." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say." »Enrique Tessieri
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"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to." »W. Somerset Maugham
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