Formatting Quotes

#1. Formatting is no substitute for writing.

Leslie Lamport

#2. I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

J.A. Konrath

#3. If each psychology student could help one patient rather than formatting their thesis every semester, then millions of sufferers would benefit each year.

Maddy Malhotra

#4. Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Bill Joy

#5. You should choose a set of simple rules that govern the format of your code, and then you should consistently apply those rules. If you are working on a team, then the team should agree to a single set of formatting rules and all members should comply.

Robert C. Martin

#6. I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

Diablo Cody

#7. I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Amanda Hocking

#8. Code formatting is important. It is too important to ignore and it is too important to treat religiously. Code formatting is about communication, and communication is the professional developer's first order of business.

Robert C. Martin

#9. Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

Charles Frazier

#12. I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

Jason Calacanis

#13. In many online breast cancer groups, members get upset when you question any authority's position. When patients invest in that authority, they don't want to see their investment devalued or diminished by questioning.

Lynne Farrow

#14. For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it ... Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Thomas Hobbes

#15. Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

H. P. Blavatsky

#16. The last madness I'll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

Gerard De Nerval

#17. I grabbed his hand. He jumped and stared at the connection like something both magical and dangerous had happened.

"Do you wanna be friends?" I asked.

Francesca Zappia

#18. I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

Amy Hempel