Quotes and Sayings About Python
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Porting a Google App Engine app written in Python to Go: Although I'm new to Go I get much quicker results than I've got with Python. Never used a language before that empowers you to solve problems as quick as Go does
-- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov -
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.
-- Barbara Chase-Riboud -
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
-- Bram Cohen -
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
-- David Javerbaum -
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
-- Eric Idle -
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
-- Eric Idle -
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
-- Eric Idle -
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
-- Eric S. Raymond -
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.
-- Ernest Cline -
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.
-- Frank Portman -
I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.
-- Gore Verbinski -
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me.
-- Grover Norquist -
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 -
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 -
My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.
-- Guido van Rossum -
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
-- Guido van Rossum -
Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.
-- Guido van Rossum -
Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.
-- Guido van Rossum -
Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.
-- Hans Arp -
Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?
-- Hulk Hogan -
I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.
-- Isla Fisher -
The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.
-- Ken Griffey, Jr. -
Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.
-- Kevin Hearne -
I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
-- Larry Wall -
Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.
-- Lawrence Dallaglio -
Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.
-- Libba Bray
