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  • We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. -- Miguel de Icaza
  • Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome. -- Jefferson Smith
  • OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. -- Nat Friedman
  • You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet. -- Canibus
  • Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? -- Emily Dickinson
  • This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. -- Linus Torvalds
  • As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. -- Darren Criss
  • When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what? -- Walter Kirn
  • This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not. -- Ilona Andrews
  • In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. -- Miguel de Icaza
  • I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels. -- Jonathan Pearce
  • I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders. -- Eoin Colfer
  • Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. -- John Dobbin
  • This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie. -- Eric Burdon
  • Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien. -- John Orloff
  • I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches. -- Caroline Paul
  • I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks. -- Richard Briers
  • She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn. -- Holly Black
  • Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out. -- Stephen Cosgrove
  • Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods... -- J. K. Rowling
  • Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'. -- Linus Torvalds
  • She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dreams are pathways for the heart. - Reminim the gnome -- T. William Watts
  • If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while. -- Johnny Christ
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