Guido Quotes

#1. Guido: She wasn't like any other woman. Stood by me 100%, uncomplaining as a tree.
Roslyn: Maybe that's what killed her.

Arthur Miller

#2. I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway.

Pauly D

#3. Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.

Djuna Barnes

#4. His eyebrows raised. "And you said demons didn't know love."
Guido's laugh was harsh. "Ahh, but haven't you learned by now, bestia? Demons may not be able to lie, but we never tell the truth.

Heather R. Blair

#5. You know, Guido, at times I find it difficult to believe you do the sort of work you do. (Medical examiner's view of Commissario Guido Brunetti)

Donna Leon

#6. South.
'But no name?,
'No, Guido. But I'll keep

Donna Leon

#7. I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.

Pauly D

#8. I started a radio show where I interviewed comics.And I interviewed Leno and Seinfeld and John Candy and Father Guido Sarducci and Garry Shandling, all when I was 16.And they kind of told me what to do.

Judd Apatow

#9. He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read.
- Guido Brunetti

Donna Leon

#10. After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

Donald Rumsfeld

#11. I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#12. He was so rapt in his thoughts that he did not hear anything much that Guido was saying, that lovely bubbling speech of Guido's when he was at last content.
Tonio allowed it to pass over him, and now and then he would give a little gracious nod.

Anne Rice

#13. Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

Rob Kall

#14. I will call Guido if i need to

Amanda Stephan

#15. Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time ... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.

Guido Molinari

#16. The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

Guido Molinari

#17. Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

Guido Van Rossum

#18. I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

Guido Palau

#19. The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

Guido Westerwelle

#20. I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.

Guido Van Rossum

#21. Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

Guido Van Rossum

#22. It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.

Guido Van Rossum

#23. I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

Guido Westerwelle

#24. A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature

Guido Von List

#25. The network approach also sheds light on another important feature: the fact that certain systems that grow without external control are still capable of spontaneously developing an internal order.

Guido Caldarelli

#26. I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art.

Guido Molinari

#27. If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

Guido Van Rossum

#28. Modern programs must handle Unicode - Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

Guido Van Rossum

#29. I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

Guido Palau

#30. When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.

Guido Palau

#31. Suddenly it was cool to have your hair lank ... It was a whole different way of looking at things, and it shook up the whole industry.

Guido Palau

#32. Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

Guido Molinari

#33. There are no tips for life neither for travelling

Guido Colombo

#34. My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Guido Van Rossum

#35. In a way, the blank canvas ... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

Guido Molinari

#36. When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

Guido Palau

#37. I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything.

Guido Westerwelle

#38. In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

Guido Van Rossum

#39. I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

Guido Molinari

#40. I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

Guido Westerwelle

#41. I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it.

Guido Palau

#42. My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

Guido Molinari

#43. Deflect, Delegate, Defer or just Do it!

Mark Guido

#44. The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

Guido Van Rossum

#45. Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

Guido Van Rossum

#46. I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

Guido Van Rossum

#47. I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.

Guido Palau

#48. With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

Guido Palau

#49. in her pocket for

Guido Henkel

#50. With monochrome painting ... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

Guido Molinari

#51. Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

Guido Van Rossum

#52. When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them.

Guido Palau

#53. Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

Walter Guido Vincenti

#54. As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat.

Guido Westerwelle

#55. The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,

Guido Calabresi

#56. Military missions are not democratic development aid.

Guido Westerwelle

#57. It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

Guido Palau

#58. To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

Guido Palau

#59. I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

Guido Palau

#60. They got to him," Ewan said, needlessly. "Must have been a midnight snack," Tim said, smiling grimly. Ewan frowned. "Don't be so morbid.

Guido Baechler

#61. Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.

Guido Palau

#62. Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Guido Molinari

#63. I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

Guido Palau

#64. Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer or a designer, as well as a stylist or makeup artist, you're really only working with maybe four or five people on a project. It's all quite small and intimate.

Guido Palau

#65. As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way ... It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.

Guido Palau

#66. Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

Guido Molinari

#67. Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.

Guido Palau

#68. Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.

Guido Van Rossum

#69. I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.

Guido Palau

#70. It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

Guido Molinari

#71. I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

Guido Palau

#72. There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society.

Guido Calabresi

#73. You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

Guido Calabresi

#74. If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Guido Van Rossum

#75. The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

Guido Palau

#76. There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs in abstractions or their implementation.

Guido Van Rossum

#77. Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

Guido Palau

#78. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

Guido Palau

#79. There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.

Guido Van Rossum

#80. You have a delicious round birthday cake. How many equal-sized pieces can you cut the cake into by making only three straight slices with a knife and without moving any of the pieces?

Zack Guido

#81. One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature

Guido Von List

#82. When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

Guido Palau

#83. Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

Guido Westerwelle

#84. As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.

Guido Westerwelle

#85. I worked in salons, where you do learn the basic sort of thing. But I didn't know anything about the kinds of things I'm doing now. I learned how to put hot-rollers in.

Guido Palau

#86. The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

Guido Colombo