Lucas Ribeiro

“Social media is actually making us more emotionally disconnected. Consistently consuming soundbites of people’s lives leads us to piece together a particular idea of reality—one that is far from the truth. We develop such anxiety surrounding social media (and whether or not we’re really living up to the standards expected of us) that we begin to prioritize screen time over real-life face time. As beings who require human intimacy (romantic and not) to survive, it’s becoming a more and more detrimental force in our culture.”
― Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.

Some, downright weird.

But then again, you’d have to be.

To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.”
― Christopher Hopper

“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.”
― C.A.R. Hoare

“He wished his own respect for her was enough to make her see her own worth, and he recognized the selfishness of that wish. He could not be her entire world”
― Robin Hobb, Dragon Haven