“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

“The shortest answer is doing.”

        — George Herbert

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

        — Friedrich Nietzsche

“People, when they talk about change, are thinking that it’s going to change for other people.”

        — William Gormley

“I know I am getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators.”

        — Gerald Ford, former U.S. President

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death”

        — H. H. Munro

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”

        — Albert Einstein

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Go placidly among the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever you labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

        — Anonymous – found in Old St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore, Maryland (dated 1692)

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”

        — Jean Cocteau

“Code indentation is a good idea (although probably not as good an idea as the Python people think)”

        — Marty Pauley

“They say if you play that Microsoft CD backward you hear satanic messages. But that’s nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows.”

“The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.”

        — Audrey Hepburn

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

        — George Burns

“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.”

        — Samuel Butler

“…Plus it’s the only way George Lucas characters will ever be three dimensional.”

        — Peter David

“Stupidity on the Internet is there for everyone to see for all times in perpetuity.”

        — Ron Kuby

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

        — Plutarch

Hate a liar more than hate a thief. A thief is only after our salary, a liar is after our reality.

“Ever since I discovered Twitter, I’ve been trying to stop using it.”

        — Giles Bowkett

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

        — Kahlil Gibran

“I am pretty sure no matter what I put in my Facebook status, I won’t cure cancer, help Haiti or raise awareness for anything, except my Facebook status.”

        — Lyz Lenz (@lyzl)

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”

        — Saint Francis of Assisi

“When you sling mud, you lose ground.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“I was a goth for two years. It turned out I was depressed.”

        — Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010

“Interpretive dance, when it succeeds, is still a failure.”

        — Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010

“Middle names exist so kids have a clear indication when they are in big trouble.”

        — Michael Lopp (@rands)

“Often we don’t really need advice or guidance from each other. Sometimes we just need a friend to deposit courage into our soul.”

        — Mike Foster

It amazes me that the same people that consider “developers” fungible are upset when the resources consider them equally exchangeable.

        — Torbjörn Gyllebring (@drunkcod)