from random import shuffle

def get_saying():

    sayings = [('The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters', '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Beautiful is better than ugly.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Explicit is better than implicit.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Simple is better than complex.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Complex is better than complicated.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Flat is better than nested.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Sparse is better than dense.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Readability counts.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Although practicality beats purity.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Errors should never pass silently.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Unless explicitly silenced.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Now is better than never.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Although never is often better than *right* now.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ("Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!", '__Tim Peters, The Zen of Python'),

               ]

    shuffle(sayings)

    saying, author = sayings[0]

    return saying, author