
“PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.”
@rasmus https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/466911047044300800
Variant: Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.”
@rasmus https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/466911047044300800
15 January 2005
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/49c4cd60d948032d
On testing
“Nobody appeals to a passage to settle a dispute of fact.”
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
Context: Now everything has changed, and everybody knows it except the clergy. Now religion is taking off its hat to science. Religion is finding out new meanings for old texts. We are told that God spoke in the language of the common people; that he was not teaching any science; that he allowed his children not only to remain in error, but kept them there. It is now admitted that the Bible is no authority on any question of natural fact; it is inspired only in morality, in a spiritual way. All, except the Brooklyn ministers, see that the Bible has ceased to be regarded as authority. Nobody appeals to a passage to settle a dispute of fact. The most intellectual men of the world laugh at the idea of inspiration.
Nobody Knows, written by Pink and Billy Mann
Song lyrics, I'm Not Dead (2006)
Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2495
The last line of this last stanza is also sometimes rendered "This land is made for you and me."
This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)
“Nobody has ever said the negotiation would be straightforward and simple.”
Interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05k0894 (15 October 2017)
2017