The higher you climb, the more alone you get, and the more you see. Of course, you stand out more and are easier to hit.” #writing

“They were a matched set. She was the fork and he was the shiv.” #writing #throwawayline

“They were like peanut butter and jelly on a sandwich made from moldy and crusty bread.” #writing #throwawayline

Goals are impersonal. Motives are what give goals personality. #writing #character

“Not every failure is a disaster, not every success a blessing.” #writing

“He was a professional idiot. That’s why he never asked for a raise.” #writing

“He picked his teeth with the edge of the credit card which he then handed to the server.” #writing #character

“There are humans working to replace humans with tech. Some believe it will help humans progress. Very few believe the tech will replace them––or that the money they make in the process will still be meaningful. That belief was valid before tech became smarter than humans.” #writing

“We need to stand our ground.” “But they have guns.” “We have each other.” “Speak for yourself. It was fun while it lasted. I’m out of here.” #writing #character

“‘It’s not your money unless you take it,’ he said, as he helped himself to the TV with the broken screen on the garbage pile.” #writing #character

“That’s OK. You won’t feel a thing after you’re dead.” #writing

We have programming language wars. We have editor wars. We have IDE wars. We have programming paradigm wars. We now have AI wars. Soon we will have the real AI wars. There’s a book idea there… #ai #programming #conflict #writing

Focus on telling a good story. Just because you have a perfect structure, it doesn’t make a bad story better. It just dresses it up in better garments. #writing

Writing is more about showing the reader their (own) self than it is about revealing yourself. #writing

“Some people love to dance on the graves of others in order to claim victory.” #writing

“I need to be a God so that I may decimate the peoples on this minuscule planet. But that is impossible, for they use octal.” If you get it, you’re a nerd. #writing #throwawayline

“The man who works from dusk to dawn works in darkness.” #writing #throwawayline

“The world doesn’t wait for you. It expects you to keep up or go faster. You are in a literal race with progress and time. You either get left behind, or you succeed temporarily.” #writing #throwawayline

“Humans complain about people in power after hading power to them on a silver platter.” #writing

“He wanted all the accolades for the things he’d never do, and for the things no one else would do that he had done. It was all about him, after all.” #writing

“Leadership is about leading, not about forcing others to perform your will.” #writing

“I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. The grass is always green under the other shoe.” #writing #throwawayline

“People listen in order to learn and to discover whether the speaker is full of sh*t.” #writing

“Death is a life-changing event.” #writing #throwawayline

“He wore his diamond ring with the diamond on the underside of his hand. He would etch whatever glass he drank from at the bars and restaurants, leaving the wait staff baffled when the top of the glass broke off.” #writing #throwawayline #character