Pragmatic Programmer Quotes

#1. The greatest revelation is stillness.

Laozi

#2. The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.

Anne Frank

#3. These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

Anton Chekhov

#4. The place smelled like Sam
or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. What this team did not realize was that having dirty tests is equivalent to, if not worse than, having no tests.

Robert C. Martin

#6. If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

W.P. Kinsella

#7. You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom

John Colton

#8. Nice moves, darlin'." He gripped her hands gently and pried them off his shirt. "You're getting stronger. That almost hurt.

Franca Storm

#9. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.

Alice Sebold

#10. Schoolgirls are not distractions.
They are students.
Teach them something other than misogyny.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#11. Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

Ne-Yo

#12. Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Walter Smith

#13. Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana