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“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.”
― Ellen Ullman, The Bug

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Plum guessed it stood to reason that out of all these billions of books at least one of them had to be dragon porn.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“The main thing to remember is that making love is at once the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

“He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“This doesn’t mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and change. It means that we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they’re actually doing. It means that we stop loving people for who they could be and start loving them for who they are. It means that sometimes when we’re beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, “Man, I’m doing the very best I can right now.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“No regrets” doesn’t mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“One might debate whether it is preferable to be a cat or a person, but why get into it? If you are reading this now, you are not a cat and never will be. So along with the good days, you’re going to experience the entire range of painful emotions that make us human.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self

“Interesting,” said Sabetha, “that I mention my own feelings, and you seem to think that what I’m after is reassurance concerning your perceptions.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“Why do you assume it’s something you’ve done, and something you can undo at will? I’m not some arithmetic problem just waiting for you to show your work properly, Locke. Did”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“It’s easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they’re comfortably ensconced in other people. What”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“instead of relying on our relationship to meet all our needs for love, acceptance, and security, we could actually provide some of these feelings for ourselves. And this would mean that we had even more in our hearts to give to each other. We were both so moved by the concept of self-compassion that in our marriage ceremony later that year, each of us ended our vows by saying “Most of all, I promise to help you have compassion for yourself, so that you can thrive and be happy.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“It takes more to hope than to remember.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“We are propping up a government that has overreached its bounds in the name of public safety,” FM said. “The people must speak up and rise against the upper class who holds them enslaved!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“This is callsign: Mongrel,” a rough voice said. “Hang on, kid.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“My robotic ghost would haunt your fleshy one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight