Goto Quotes

#1. The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple

John Brown

#2. I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

Larry Wall

#3. I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory

Gerard Way

#4. A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

Larry Wall

#5. If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

Ken Thompson

#6. Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.

Erik Naggum

#7. Shared memory could reasonably be called the GOTO of our time:

Anonymous

#8. GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

Raymond Simard

#9. Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!

Edsger Dijkstra

#10. 10 Print "The 80s are fab!" 20 Goto 10 Run

Steven Howlett

#11. It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

Larry Wall

#12. You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them,

Neal Stephenson

#13. The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

Mark Twight

#14. Neither living nor learning was good without order.

Temple Grandin

#15. She was responsible for the things she chose. That's all. She almost managed a tiny smile. It was simultaneously an incredible responsibility and almost nothing at all, she thought wonderingly.

Hiromi Goto

#16. No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria,

Kenji Goto

#17. Shaking my head, I watched the cat run under the van and stare at us with black
eyes. I wasn't a cat person. They always seemed like they were secretly plotting
the destruction of the human race. And despite the cutesy name Zoe had given it,
this one struck me as slightly evil.

Erin Lynn

#18. I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

Patricia Riggen

#19. Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

Midori Goto

#20. ... the modern era should not see an end to cultural diversity, but modern people should engage with their traditions in a transformed way: they should be recognized as 'traditions,' rather than as 'truths.

Christopher Goto-Jones

#21. I'm gonna live till I die.

Frank Sinatra

#22. I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.

Kenji Goto

#23. Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

C.S. Goto

#24. Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

Midori Goto

#25. I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come.

Simone Elkeles

#26. Everyone fears catastrophes and disasters and crashes and deaths, and people who attack you in the dark. You made all that worse for me. I felt something might happen which would separate me from you, and I could not deal with life without you. (23)

Sarah Ferguson

#27. Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.

Melissa De La Cruz

#28. I don't even want to ask,' he said.
'You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people.

Gillian Flynn

#29. As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Amy Hood

#30. To be able to bring change into a fixed world, [she] thought. There is power in that.

Hiromi Goto

#31. Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.

Kenji Goto