“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

        — Carl Bard

“You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

        — Ann Lamott

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

        — Andrew Jackson

“How come Steve Jobs liver can be replaced, but the battery in my iPod can’t be?”

        — Julias Shaw (@mentalartist)

“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.”

        — M. H. Alderson

“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

        — Christopher Morley

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

        — Plato

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

        — John Ruskin

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

        — Jim Barksdale (former Netscape CEO)

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”

        — Emma Goldman

“When you’re in that voting booth with just your conscience and a pen, take the pen because that’s all you’ll ever get out of them.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

        — David Starr Jordan

“The freedom of others extends mine infinitely.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

        — Hilary Cooper

“Eagles may soar high, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”

        — John Benfield

“It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.”

        — Unknown

“We want structures that serve people, not people serving structures.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility”

        — Newton Minow

“One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy.”

        — Eric Evans

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

“Bing is a great Website for doing Internet searches. I know that, because I Googled it.”

        — Stephen Colbert

“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.”

        — Wendell Phillips

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

        — Robert Anthony

“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”

        — Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)

“I remember when social networking was something that happened in person. How awkward.”

        — Caprice Crane

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

        — Winston Churchill

“At some point the entire universe will become a black, cold, lifeless void. So pass me my damned coffee.”

        — Unknown

“Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

        — Oscar Wilde