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Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise. -- Bruce Eckel
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. -- Eric Idle
You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. -- Robin Williams
Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay. -- Barbara Chase-Riboud
I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last? -- Larry Wall
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. -- Eric Idle
Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed. -- Kevin Hearne
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. -- Bram Cohen
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner! -- Wes Bentley
I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion. -- Michael Jai White
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning. -- Ernest Cline
Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs. -- Eric Idle
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor. -- Simon Pegg
Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book. -- Libba Bray
Life is short (You need Python) -- Bruce Eckel
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. -- Larry Wall
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain. -- Frank Portman
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet? -- Eric S. Raymond
Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake? -- Mark Jackson
'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series. -- Mark Gatiss
Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents. -- Mathew Baynton
You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show. -- Graham Chapman
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. -- Michael Palin
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. -- Scott Adsit
Modern programs must handle Unicode "?Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better. -- Guido van Rossum
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid. -- Alessandro Nivola
Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. -- Scott Adsit
I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together. -- Miranda Kerr
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles. -- Richard Dawkins
I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy. -- Isla Fisher
Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python. -- Alice Cooper
I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines. -- Terry Jones
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain. -- Seth MacFarlane
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain. -- Helen Mirren
Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. -- Mike Myers
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. -- Eric Idle
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
I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that. -- Tim Heidecker
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age. -- Terry Teachout
Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually. -- Guido van Rossum
My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries. -- Guido van Rossum
Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong. -- Stephen Merchant
I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when 'Mr. Show' started airing. -- Joe Mande
Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. -- Rob Pike
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too. -- Reggie Watts
If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.' -- Seth MacFarlane
As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that. -- Reggie Watts
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
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
There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique. -- Eric Idle
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
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. -- Rowan Atkinson
In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. -- Guido van Rossum
One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing -- Brian Eno
Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book. -- Libba Bray
I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it. -- Michael Palin
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset. -- Guido van Rossum
I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great. -- Fred Armisen
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
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best. -- David Javerbaum
I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python. -- Lana Del Rey
A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse. -- Dana Gould
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
I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny. -- Thomas Sadoski
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
I love crazy names. It comes right from Monty Python and Woody Allen - nothing in the world makes me giggle more than a funny name. It became a thing I started doing when I wrote. If a person came into a store and said, "How much is this apple?" that person would have an insane name. -- Michael Schur
I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python. -- Phoebe Philo
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
I've eaten lion, leopard, crocodile, python. I don't recommend lion. It tastes exactly like when a tomcat comes into your house and sprays. Snake and crocodile are great - a cross between lobster and chicken. -- Wilbur Smith
I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.' -- Larry the Cable Guy
I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd. -- Gore Verbinski
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. -- Jeanette Winterson
The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox. -- Maneka Gandhi
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. -- A. J. Jacobs
No. She will never be queen." She swayed toward him, and he felt like he was being encircled by a python, smothered and choked. -- Marissa Meyer
Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids. -- Malorie Blackman
The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy. -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils? -- Barbara Kingsolver

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