#her

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#everybody #incestuous #know #live #london

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#characters #get #outside #somewhere #spotlight

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#cosmos #god #matter #me #mystery

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

— Niklaus Wirth

#computing #correctly #forever #once #performs

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#consists #contemplation #design #new #old

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

#another #belong #cannot #fallacy #languages

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

#concentrate #could #decisive #details #essential

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#get #goes #happen #i #memory

Of course I've done musicals here in London. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#done #here #i #london #musicals

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#differences #had #himself #none #personal