Tag Archives: Being

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
(Niklaus Wirth – Swiss Scientist)
15-Feb-1934 :

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
(Jeanette Winterson – British Novelist)
27-Aug-1959 :

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
(Jeanette Winterson – British Novelist)
27-Aug-1959 :

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
(Jeanette Winterson – British Novelist)
27-Aug-1959 :

I didn’t mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
(Jeanette Winterson – British Novelist)
27-Aug-1959 :