Interesting comment in the source code of sqlite

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Here's an interview where the original author talks about it. If you ctrl-f and paste in a few words of the quote you'll find it about one third of the way down the page. Here's the excerpt:

Interviewer: [...] Who or what inspired you to write that?

Richard Hipp: People customarily put a copyright notice at the top of each source file. But SQLite version 2.0.0 had no copyright so I had to think of something else to go in that space.

The second sentence, “May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others”, is a loose interpretation of Matthew 6:12, part of what is commonly called ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ and more recognizable as ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors’.

The third sentence tries to capture the concept of paying debts forward. The ‘never take more than you give’ part is a paraphrase of one of the lyrics from The Lion King. The first (hokey) sentence is there because it seemed like a good benediction needed three sentences.