Top 26 Emacs Quotes
#1. No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
Richard Stallman
#2. An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
Linus Torvalds
#3. VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy - it hasn't the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.
Clifford Stoll
#5. The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!
Richard Stallman
#6. It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman
#7. Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.
Chris DiBona
#8. It doesn't take special talents to reproduce
even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.
Richard Stallman
#9. My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
Donald Knuth
#10. I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.
Todd Bennett
#11. I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
Neal Stephenson
#12. Emacs is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.
Neal Stephenson
#13. People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Richard Stallman
#14. To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man.
Thomas A Kempis
#15. There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
Albert Einstein
#16. How can we thankful? We can only love the Heart of Jesus more generously and by our union with Him, become the most humble.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#17. My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?
Marc Riboud
#18. I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.
Lyle Kessler
#19. As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
Warren Buffett
#20. Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.
Pete Hamill
#21. What was stolen must be returned
Neil Finn
#23. Through the Adult the little person can begin to tell the difference between life as it was taught and demonstrated to him (Parent), life as he felt it or wished it or fantasied it (Child), and life as he figures it out by himself (Adult).
Thomas A. Harris
#24. On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#25. Security is here to protect citizens. You can't do that if you insist on seeing any of them as adversaries.
Ann Leckie
#26. Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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