Action Quote by Linus Torvalds

“Besides directory paths on Windows, raw strings are also commonly used for regular expressions”

— Mark Lutz

“useful thing about a File object is that it offers a much safer way to represent a file than just using a String file…

— Kathy Sierra

“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a…

— Peter Seibel

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,

— Dennis Ritchie

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we…

— Nicholson Baker

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

— Guido van Rossum

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

— Erik Naggum

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C…

— Jamie Zawinski

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

— Darl McBride

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program…

— Jerry Pournelle

“An invented script will have invented ligatures. When that happens, most word processors are just done. They can’t even. Just no. It’s as if…

— David J. Peterson