Ported Quotes

#1. Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.

Stephen Graham Jones

#2. Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Eric S. Raymond

#3. So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

Linus Torvalds

#4. Oh fizzle, he just ported," - Lexi

Candace Knoebel

#5. AirMech was ported, I guess, but they made a complete VR mode for it. It's a tabletop game. It's incredibly compelling. I find it a lot more compelling in VR.

Brendan Iribe

#6. I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ...

Larry Wall

#7. Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?"
I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

Andrea Corr

#9. If there must be a moon, let it be high,
a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian,
nor claimed by the goddesses all around us.

Mahmoud Darwish

#10. Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.'
Lady Nora: 'I am sorry to hear that, I suppose it takes some wit to produce one's own entertainment. Are you often bored?

Meredith Duran

#11. It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

#12. John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a recent speech. Kerry was stunned about this. He said, 'What? People are listening to my speeches?'

Jay Leno

#13. Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Alan Barth

#14. The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Kenneth L. Pike

#15. You're saying you think one of my staff might be a terrorist." She kept her face neutral, but couldn't resist asking the next question, like poking at a sore tooth. "Is this the first organization you've visited?" "Yes.

Lisa Nicholas