All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?" On being the oldest active”
“Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.”
“I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?”
“There's something you learn in your first boot”
“I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. ... they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs. As quoted in Grace Hopper : Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer (1989) by Charlene W. Billings, p. 74 ISBN 089490194X”
“I've always been more interested in the future than in the past . As quoted in The Reader's Digest (October 1994), p. 185”
“I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy. As appeared in the October 1986 issue of Chips , a Department of the Navy information technology magazine”
“Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need.”
“The joy of coding Python is seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code.”
“I don't think of Python as a language. I think of it as a community.”
“Code is read much more often than it is written.”
“The best way to learn a programming language is to write code in it.”
“Explicit is better than implicit.”
“Simple is better than complex.”
“Readability counts.”
“Don't try to be clever — write code that is easy to understand.”
“Programming is not about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.”
“Art is a line around your thoughts.”
“All art is erotic.”
“Whoever wants to know something about me — as an artist, the only notable thing — ought to look at my pictures.”
“I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women.”
“There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day.”
“The decorative arts are the equal of the fine arts.”
“My paintings are my biography.”
“Beauty is an expression of the soul.”
“I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself.”
“Gold is the color of eternity.”
“What is poetry? You ask while fixing your blue pupil on my pupil. What is poetry? And you ask me? Poetry... is you.”
“There may be no poets, but there will always be poetry.”
“The soul that can speak through its eyes can also kiss with its gaze.”