Quotes About Punctuation

Seibel: How do you read code you didn't write? Crockford: By cleaning it. I'll throw it in a text editor and I'll start fixing it. First thing I'll do is make the punctuation conform; get the indentation right; do all that stuff. I have programs that can do that for me, but I find doing that myself is more efficient in the long run because it gets me more acquainted with the code.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.

I have, for instance, silently corrected Jefferson's frequent use of "it's" for "its" and "recieve" for "receive

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

it is impossible to use that if the relative clause is non-restrictive – that is, if it does not serve to identify the thing under discussion, but only serves to provide more information about that thing. So, you must write the Suez Canal, which was opened in 1869, and you cannot write *the Suez Canal, that was opened in 1869.

comma: John, you are a good man. In numeration, commas are used to express periods of three figures: Mountains 25,000 feet high; 1,000,000 dollars. The Semicolon marks a slighter connection than the

Punctuation, is? fun!

John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66

Celebrations] are the punctuation marks that make sense of the passage of time; without them, there are no beginnings and endings. Life becomes an endless series of Wednesdays.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

I don't know what an interrobang is." "It's a glyph that combines a question mark and an exclamation point.

The semicolon is a much neglected beast

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places...

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

Fejezzük be ezt a beszélgetést. Túlságosan sok benne a felkiáltójel.

We argued for weeks about the existence and then the location of a particular semicolon

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.