“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”

        — Spanish Proverb

“Work like you owe money to a Russian, love like you’ve never looked in the mirror, dance like a drunk badger attacking a hedge.”

        — Dolly (@TheDollSays) #

“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerso

Debt, n.

An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.

        — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”

        — Archibald MacLeish

“Then what are we fighting for?”

        — Winston Churchill in response to a suggestion of cutting arts funding to support the war effort

“There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”

        — Erma Bombeck

Merry Christmas to the child in all of us.

“They say a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Why the truth is pantsless, no one mentions.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

“If it’s a new problem, perhaps it demands a new approach. If it’s an old problem, it certainly does.”

        — Seth Godin

“Never let your past dictate who you are, but let it be a part of who you’ll become.”

        — Nick Portokalos

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

“You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”

        — Irish Proverb

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”

        — Benjamin Jowett

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another”

        — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III Scene I

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

        — Paul Boese

“Americans will always reach for their lawyers first.”

        — Neil Brennan, Ignite Melbourne 2010

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

        — Plato

“Critical decisions need to be made as late as possible, but before they make themselves.”

        — Mary Poppendieck, YOW! 2010

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

        — Horace Mann

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace”

        — Robert J. Sawyer

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

        — Henry Winkler

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

        — Ruth St. Denis

“Sysops people need to think of servers as cattle rather than pets…”

        — Michael Nygard, YOW! 2010

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

“Some people are like slinkies – not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.”

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

        — Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“You never truly understand concurrency until you’ve had your second child”

        — Old Erlang saying

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

        — Sydney Smith