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- Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
- R.Z. Sheppard, book critic
- program - A set of instructions, given to the computer, describing the sequence of steps the computer performs in order to accomplish a specific task. The task must be specific, such as balancing your checkbook or editing your text. A general task, such as working for world peace, is something we can all do, but not something we can currently write programs to do.
- From Unix User's Manual Manual, Supplementary Documents, p. 14-3:
- Never judge a book by its movie.
- J.W. Eagan
- Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
- Bette Midler (1945 - )
- I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
- Tommy Manville
- Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverly Nichols
- I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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