This article is a stub. You can help out with Wikiquote by expanding it! The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It went extinct in 1662 due to hunting, deforestation and invasive...
Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages, originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author A - F [edit] Perl is the most popular...
Snow is a form of precipitation consisting of crystalline water ice that falls as small flakes from clouds. A little snow, tumbled about, anon becomes a mountain. — William Shakespeare Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To...
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop (or Æsop, from Greek Αἴσωπος Aisopos) (c. 620 BC – c. 560 BC) was an ancient Greek fabulist of possibly African descent (his Greek name means Ethiopian or black man in today's parlance), by tradition a slave who credited the...
ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid-1950s which greatly influenced many other languages. Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for...
Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot get along without them; and, to see the apparitions of comets, one would be tempted to believe that Heaven itself is in need of star actors. ~ Victor Hugo A comet is an icy small...
It seems no work of Man’s creative hand, By labour wrought as wavering fancy planned; But from the rock as if by magic grown, Eternal, silent, beautiful, alone! Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine, Where erst Athena held her rites divine; Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane, That...
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams... ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Clouds are visible masses of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. When the water in clouds becomes...
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. —T.S. Eliot Coffee is a brewed beverage prepared from the roasted or baked seeds of several species of an evergreen shrub of the genus Coffea. The two most common sources of coffee beans are the highly regarded Coffea arabica, and the "robusta" form...
All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed. ~ Terry Pratchett A desert is a region of land that is very dry because of low rainfall amounts (precipitation), often having little coverage by plants, and in which streams dry up unless they are...
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