Frederike Stokhuyzen Quotes

#1. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?

Carolyn Jourdan

#2. Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

John Irving

#3. There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

Rob Pike

#4. It was a toss-up which was more pointless: Arguing with an algorithm or talking back to his mother.

Ramez Naam

#5. I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

Jamaica Kincaid

#6. Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Douglas Adams

#7. The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

S. Truett Cathy

#8. Don't put love inside the conditional if-else, let it be inside infinite for loop...

Ankit Rawat

#9. What a few fans are trying to do is cause trouble.

Ken Bates

#10. I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Diablo Cody

#11. April was too lonely a month to spend alone. In April, everyone around me looked happy. People would throw their coats off and enjoy each other's company in the sunshine - talking, playing catch, holding hands. But I was always by myself

Haruki Murakami

#12. I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.

Peaches Geldof

#13. Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Socrates