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

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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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"But language is wine upon his lips."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Language, Wine, Expression, Art

"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Language, Word, Power, Influence, Memory

"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

Mark Twain, American Author

Language, Fight, Cats, Grammar

"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Language, Word, Growth, Creation

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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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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"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."

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"I've never worked with the Java community."

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

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

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"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

"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."

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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."

"But language is wine upon his lips."

"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

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

"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."

"I've never worked with the Java community."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."