Syntactic Quotes

#1. Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings

Alexander Stepanov

#2. It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

Hilary Putnam

#3. You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

Christopher Strachey

#4. When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Eric S. Raymond

#5. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Alan Perlis

#6. The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

Noam Chomsky

#7. Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Brian Kernighan

#8. She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco.

Danielle Steel

#9. I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#10. Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it.

J. Wilbur Chapman

#11. One writes fables in periods of oppression.

Italo Calvino

#12. I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

Alexis Denisof

#13. God was in control. She had nothing to fear. No matter what happened next or how the outcome played in their lives, whatever triumph or tragedy might take place, God loved them. Nothing could ever change that.

Karen Kingsbury

#14. Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it's a repugnant use of one of God's gifts.

Michael Jackson

#15. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

Josh Radnor

#17. God Almighty first planted a garden: and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

#18. It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

J. Lynn