Shiny Quotes
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You'd be shiny and glossy and resist dust.
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More Shiny Quotes
Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don’t like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
billy childish— Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
— On a party in the mid-1990s.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
jack kerouac— Part Two, Ch. 3
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.
stephen jay gould— "Of Embryos and Ancestors", p. 318
Anyone privy to the release of the iPhone is going to hold on to their current device as long as they possibly can, all but Scotch taping their devices together so that they can crawl over the finish line and into the loving arms of a shiny new iPhone. (Oh, you know the box is gonna be sexy.)
— John Mayer, in (2006). "Bring on the iPhone!!" Honeyee.com (accessed April 25, 2007)
To the designer of programming languages, I say: unless you can support the paradigms I use when I program, or at least support my extending your language into one that does support my programming methods, I don't need your shiny new languages.
— Robert Floyd , The Paradigms of Programming, 1978 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 22 (8), August 1979: pp. 455–460
He sat at the cocktail bar? It wore the air of a fashion magazine, once stiff and shiny, which too many people had handled.
— 1955 Officers and Gentlemen, bk.1, ch.8.
When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
— Rossiter Johnson, A Rhyme of the Rain.
