Pointers Quotes

“If the pointer is not pointing to a valid object or function, bad things may happen.”
― Robert C. Seacord, Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming

“And the job was done, too, boys – for Old Frank. He had stuck to that point all afternoon – all through that snow – all the while we had been looking for him – while I had been taking Jack to the farmer’s and coming back my self – through the cold and the sleet and the wind and the ice – he had held the point, true as the warrior that he was, the grandest, gamest, noblest of his breed that I have ever known.”
― Horace Lytle, The Story of Jack: A Tale of the North

“However, pointers, as a rule, will train up quicker, are less likely to show temperament, and may work better in warm weather if water is scares; while setters are more likely to work better if the going is wet, take cover more courageously, and prove more nearly “one man” dogs. But burrs never the pointers … you pick your own dog!”
― Horace Lytle, Gun Dogs Afield

“They don’t shoot ground game in his neck of the woods and the last thing he wanted was a dog which would take off after a gopher or a squirrel. And he said that bum-punching quail over pointers was no more interesting than shooting clays down-the-line – the same going-away bird every time.”
― Gerald Hammond, Whose Dog Are You?

“Setters,” he was saying, “are usually supposed to be the keenest and pointers the strongest, but in my opinion it all depends on the partic’lar dog. Nowadays I hear a good deal about the pointer bein’ the best dog, and I’ve owned some good ones myself. There’s nothing prettier than strong, wiry pointer doublin’ and turnin’ in the brush and freezin’ to a steady point. But for my own part, give me a well-bred Llewellyn setter; they’re the humanist dog they is. They’ve got the bird sense, too. Oh, you can’t beat ‘em.”
― Walter Alden Dyer, The Dogs of Boytown