A Quote by Alan Perlis

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Alan Perlis

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Computer Every Flower Grows Hardy Occasionally Weed

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Alan Perlis
American - Scientist
April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

John Galsworthy

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Khaled Hosseini

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

Amit Ray

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

Suzy Kassem

Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

Zenkei Shibayama

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

Zenkei Shibayama

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Don DeLillo

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

Paulo Coelho

How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

Yelawolf

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Edmund Burke

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

Edmund Burke

Science grows like a weed every year.

Kary Mullis

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

Shunryu Suzuki

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.