#lan

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#complex #daily #daily work #distributed #example

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#decide #design #designer #language #own

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#belief #details #easier #either #harder

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#attention #attract #buy #crowd #get

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons. ↗

— Tim Roth

#compare #comparisons #how #i #kubrick

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#haven #i #left #like #misrepresented

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#everything #i #immature #just #me

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#call #every #father #friend #here

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives. ↗

— Karl Rove

#boost #consequences #debt #economic #federal