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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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