"My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it."

-- Sue Grafton

#Jobs Quotes #Fool Quotes #Reader Quotes

“Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.”

Source : Spike Milligan (2011). “Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts”, p.198, Penguin UK
“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”

Source : "Epigrams" by Martial, III, 42, c. 80 - 104 AD.
“I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.”
“One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.”
“Relationship Principle 3 He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.”
“Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.”
“A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition”
“We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.”

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