“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.” -The Secret History, Donna Tartt
“My dear basil,” said Dorian, “What have you told me? Simply that you felt you admired me too much. That is not even a compliment.” “It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” -The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever.” -The Secret History, Donna Tartt
i’ll probably add more to this later but pls add your own too!! i wanna see what other quotes make people go absolutely insane
you change people. your name makes others smile. your work moves people. someone might compliment you somewhere, right now. someone’s heart will beat faster just thinking about you. your friends remember your experiences fondly. someone might see a book in the store and think of you, too. you inspire others to keep going, or you will someday. your presence matters and changes the world every day.
“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!
Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”
- Sacha Coward
Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero
Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”