"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."

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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

John Green, American Author

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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Language, Word, Love, Truth, Meaning

"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."

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"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."

Linux

"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."

Software

"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."

People

"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."

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"We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate."

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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

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"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."

"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."

"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

"All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects."

"When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job."

"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."

"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."

"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."

"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."

"We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate."