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While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as… — Douglas Rushkoff
What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just… — Sherry Turkle
Re-vision â€“ the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction â€“ is for… — Adrienne Rich
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface:… — Roland Barthes
My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when… — Garrison Keillor
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then… — Orson Scott Card
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I… — Jeanette Winterson
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for… — Alberto Manguel
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The… — George Santayana
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. — Roland Barthes
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and… — Michel Foucault
Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that… — Joseph Heller
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into… — Edith Wharton
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various… — Roland Barthes
For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would… — John Calvin

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