Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. S. Lewis

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Catullus

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Catie Curtis

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Catie Curtis

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Cecelia Ahern

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Cecelia Ahern

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Betty Buckley

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Eva Green

I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.

Krysten Ritter

I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.

Jeremy London

I can't deal with high maintenance chicks.

Sienna Miller

I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out.

Sienna Miller

I'm not high maintenance.

Liz Vassey

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

Sloane Crosley

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

Fred Brooks

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

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.