Quote

1. A famous or popular saying by someone. A listing of some of Computer Hope's favorite quotes can be found on our quotes page.
2. Also known as a quotation mark or inverted commas, a quote is a symbol on the keyboard that looks like two small vertical lines ( " ) often found on the United States QWERTY keyboard next to the Enter key. In computer programming quotes are used to contain text or other data. For example, in the print statement example below, what you're printing to the screen is often surrounded in quotes.

print "Hello world!";

• An additional listing of computer keyboard keys can be found by clicking here.

Also see:  Angled quote, Back quote, Keyboard definitions, Single quote