“55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Variant: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Context: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]
“55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“Nowadays the true transgressors are those who possess values.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Oggigiorno i veri trasgressori sono coloro che possiedono dei valori.
“Nowadays, having the heart "of other times" is not a defect, but an added value.”
Original: (it) Al giorno d'oggi, avere il cuore "d'altri tempi" non è un difetto, ma un valore aggiunto.
Attributed to Mooers (1959) in Eugene Garfield (1997) "A Tribute To Calvin N. Mooers, A Pioneer Of Information Retrieval." The Scientist, Vol:11, #6, p. 9, March 17, 1997
“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”
" Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&q="One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death"&pg=PA65#v=onepage" (1907)