Quotes About Readability

#1. Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

Patricia Schroeder

#2. Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Rae Armantrout

#3. Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.

Hermann Zapf

#4. The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.

Russell Smith

#5. What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.

Gerry McGovern

#6. XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#7. What really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.

Stephen Koch

#8. It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

Dennis Ritchie

#9. As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

Donald O. Hebb

#10. There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

Marian Engel

#11. The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Allan Sekula

#12. It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Alain Badiou

#13. Readability of code is now my first priority. It's more important than being fast, almost as important as being correct, but I think being readable is actually the most likely way of making it correct.

Peter Seibel

#14. [Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

Jamie Zawinski

#15. Too, if you're a true contemplative, your life and words will overflow with spiritual wisdom, compassion, and fruitful insight, because you're sure to measure out what you say carefully and calmly, eschewing lies and speaking without the shrill pretense of hypocrites.

Anonymous

#16. I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.

Danielle Dax

#17. And I walked into a dark hall
where the landlady stood
execrating and final,
sending me to hell,
waving her fat, sweaty arms
and screaming
screaming for rent
because the world had failed us
both.

Charles Bukowski

#18. I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

Taye Diggs

#19. If a heart breaks and nobody hears it, how do you know if its really broken?

Angela Richardson

#20. 'FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.

Sonya Walger

#21. It is not the quantity of your thoughts but the quality of your thoughts that make the difference. Thoughts can either be productive or a hindrance. But, when we focus our attention on faithfulness and truthfulness the restoration process begins.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#22. I looked right into the face of pure evil. And the worst part is, it wasn't the enemy.

Jana Deleon

#23. Holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case.

Kevin Young

#24. Dark gods beneath the ground in the Frostfangs,

George R R Martin

#25. Now whither does THIS trail lead?" Kaa's voice was gentler. "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open.

Rudyard Kipling

#26. Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Robert A. Heinlein