Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

John Fowles

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

Lewis Carroll

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Lewis Carroll

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Lewis Carroll

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

Lewis Carroll

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Lewis Carroll

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Lewis Carroll

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

Bill Gates

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Larry Wall

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

Niklaus Wirth

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Eric S. Raymond

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

Rasmus Lerdorf

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

Ronald Fisher

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.