Wednesday, June 30, 2010

“Religion is like a drug, in small doses it’s curative, in large, it’s addictive.”

        — Eli Gold, The Good Wife

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

“Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

Monday, June 28, 2010

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

        — Charles Buxton

Sunday, June 27, 2010

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Saturday, June 26, 2010

In reference to the 2010 World Cup: “The French give up, the Americans turn up at the last minute and England are left to face the Germans. Does that ring any bells?”

        — Simon Cuce (@simoncuce)

Friday, June 25, 2010

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’”

        — Eve Merriam

Thursday, June 24, 2010

“You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

        — Liz Smith

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

“At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.”

        — Marshall Lumsden

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

“Unix never says ‘please’”

        — Rob Pike

Monday, June 21, 2010

“You can’t run from your problems forever. Eventually, you’ll have to take a car or a plane to really avoid them.”

        — Caprice Crane

Sunday, June 20, 2010

“I know God wouldn’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”

        — Mother Teresa

Saturday, June 19, 2010

“Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.”

        — Irisa Hail

Friday, June 18, 2010

“Dear coffee: we had a deal. I’d put you in my body, you would give me super powers. WTF happened?”

        — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

“The (computer) mouse is probably the narrowest straw you could try and suck all of human expression through.”

        — Joy Mountford

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”

        — Marcel Marceau

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

        — Tom Clancy

Monday, June 14, 2010

“It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.”

        — David Harris

Sunday, June 13, 2010

“I loved Git until I tried it. Now I love Mercurial.”

        — Tor Norbye, The Java Posse Podcast

Saturday, June 12, 2010

“Organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

Friday, June 11, 2010

“The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, June 10, 2010

“I have never lowered myself to name calling, and I’m not about to start on account of that prat.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Yesterday it built.
No change; today it does not.
The code has feelings.

        — Pete Goodliffe

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

“This is everything we asked for but not what we wanted.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

Monday, June 7, 2010

“May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead.”

        — Irish Blessing

Sunday, June 6, 2010

“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”

        — Doug Gwyn

Saturday, June 5, 2010

“A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives.”

        — Proverb

Friday, June 4, 2010

“We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.”

        — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Thursday, June 3, 2010

“He who has begun is half done.”

        — Horace

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

        — James Oppenheim

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw