Quotes about git

A collection of quotes on the topic of git, man, making, good.

Quotes about git

Mark Twain photo
Mark Twain photo
Mark Twain photo

“You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Europe and Elsewhere. Corn Pone Opinions (1925)

Mark Twain photo
Zora Neale Hurston photo
Alice Walker photo

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: Blood and Grits

Josh Billings photo
Josh Billings photo

“The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Affurisms: Slips of the Pen http://books.google.com/books?id=Wpk_AAAAYAAJ&q="The+lion+and+the+lamb+may+possibly+sumtime+lay+down+in+this+world+together+for+a+fu+minnits+but+when+the+lion+kums+tew+git+up+the+lamb+will+be+missing"&pg=PA227#v=onepage The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876)

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“Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the gall to talk about "Unix design" and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Message, Git mailing list, 2008-12-17, Gmane, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-18 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103400,
2000s, 2008

Josh Billings photo
Josh Billings photo

“When a man gits tew talking about himself, he seldum fails tew be eloquent, and often reaches the sublime.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)

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“I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.”

Marcus Brigstocke (1973) comedian

Planet Corduroy (2007)

Nick Cave photo

“Here comes the Judgement train! Git on board!”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Blind Lemon Jefferson

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“The BB house works as a kind of twat amplifier, you see. Once harnessed within, someone who in normal life would merely strike me as a bit of a git quickly swells in negative stature, eventually coming to symbolise everything I hate about our cruel and godless universe.”

Charlie Brooker (1971) journalist, broadcaster and writer from England

The Guardian, 3 June 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1788457,00.html
Guardian columns, Big Brother

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Josh Billings photo

“The man who pitys everyboddy, wants watching, for the chances are that he iz gitting phatt slily on other peoples misfortunes.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

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“The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

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Irvine Welsh photo
James Russell Lowell photo
James Russell Lowell photo

“Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose,
An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

No. 3.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

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“Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.”

Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer

Plantation Proverbs.

Sam Walter Foss photo

“There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.”

Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911) American writer

The Land of Git-Thare, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Linus Torvalds photo
James Russell Lowell photo

“You've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

No. 1, st. 2
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

Linus Torvalds photo

“I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

2007-06-14
2000s, 2007

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James Whitcomb Riley photo

“An’ the Gobble-uns ’ll git you
Ef you don’t watch out.”

Little Orphant Annie.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Joel Chandler Harris photo

“Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.”

Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer

Plantation Proverbs.

“Four more byes down the leg side, although Prior was pretty blameless there. However, it does take his byes conceded past the 1,000,000 mark in only his seventh Test, which is quite some achievement. Give that some [name of sponsor deleted] energy, you gobby git.”

Rob Smyth (1977) English/Irish rugby league player

Cricket England versus India; Third Test, day one; Over-by-over: afternoon session http://sport.guardian.co.uk/englandindia2007/story/0,,2145331,00.html

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“This is a song inspired by the work of Phil Collins; the nasty, whining little git.
Ch. 36, 1:18:46”

Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author

Bewilderness (DVD, 2001)

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