Python Quotes

• Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?

  Mark Jackson

  Snakes, Oil, Settling

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• Generally the pythons are better than anything else at killing.

  Dave Barry

  Killing

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language.

  Peter Norvig

  Skills, People, Google

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• Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

  Bruce Eckel

  Lines, Noise, Perl

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• The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Snakes, Skins, Fur

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• Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

  Guido van Rossum

  Littles, Too Much, Needs

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• Life is short
  (You need Python)

  Bruce Eckel

  Life Is Short, Needs, Life Is

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

  Guido van Rossum

  Support, Get Better, Modern

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• Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Marriage, Gun, Desire

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• Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

  Barbara Chase-Riboud

  Loneliness, Clay, Carrie

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• Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

  Larry Wall

  People, Wanted, Perl

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• The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sleep, Heart, Moon

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• 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

  Details, Java, Belief

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• Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.

  Kevin Hearne

  Feelings, Nerd, Feeling Depressed

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.179, Del Rey

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• When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Spring, Team, Thinking

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• I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some Monty Python.

  Brent Sexton

  Home, Mean, Guitar

  "Emmys 2012: 'The Killing's' Brent Sexton Defends Show, Doubtful About Season 3". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Kids, Film, Monty

  "Claws in his contract". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2001.

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• I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.

  Lana Del Rey

  Over You, Body, Anthem

  Song: National Anthem, Album: Born 2 Die, 2012

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• Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

  Frank Portman

  Everyday, Documentaries, Britain

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• I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

  Louis Leakey

  Feet, Tree, Saws

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• People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

  Michael Palin

  Crazy, Believe, Years

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• Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?

  Hulk Hogan

  Running, Wrestling

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• Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

  Mathew Baynton

  Growing Up, Parent, Shows

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• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Swallowing, Body, Goats

  "How to Be the Healthiest Person Alive" by AJ Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

  David Attenborough

  Silly, Animal, Bigs

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