Tim Peters is reliably good at a memorable turn of phrase:
"Professor Knuth's masterful work on the topics of sorting and searching spans nearly 800 pages of sophisticated technical text. In Python practice, we reduce it to two imperatives (we read Knuth so you don't have to)..."
– Tim Peters, from his introduction to chapter 5, "Searching and Sorting", in the 2nd edition of the Python Cookbook (2005).
"Over the years samplesort was in use, I made a standing offer to buy dinner for anyone who could code a faster Python sort. Alas, I ate alone."
– Tim Peters, from his introduction to chapter 5, "Searching and Sorting", in the 2nd edition of the Python Cookbook (2005).
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