Charles Moore Quotes

Charles Moore's page offers sharp takes on programming skill and responsibility.

13 quotes

  1. I like the observation that Forth is an amplifier: a good programmer can write a great program; a bad programmer a terrible one. I feel no need to cater to bad programmers.

  2. Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in.

  3. There was hostility surrounding doing my job.

  4. My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, I don't want to hear those words.

  5. The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.

  6. The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years.

  7. Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

  8. My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.

  9. “And she also enjoyed a conversation on public questions which tended to take place in the parlour of the shop”

  10. “It seems to have been meeting Methodist missionaries from India that inspired Margaret with her ambition, curious in someone little more than a child, to join the Indian Civil Service After listening to them, she remembered, 'I wanted to be an Indian civil servant, because I thought that India was a remarkable place and I would love to be a part, a cog in the wheel, of this great empire. (page 6)”

  11. “Father taught me to like wht he called 'discussion', she recalled. Margaret Thatcher never repudiated the Methodism of her childhood, with its reverence for truth-telling, hard work and puting into practice the teachings of Scripture. page 6”

  12. “Life was not something we did not know about. We were right in it. (page 4)”

  13. “But, like the man in the song, Alfred Roberts did well by doing good. The shop prospered.”