“Forever is composed of nows.”

        — Emily Dickinson

“C++ are the smartest programmers on the planet. If you don’t believe me, ask any one of them.”

        — Don Box

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

        — George E. Woodberry

“I don’t understand how the people of Tunisia overthrew their government without me signing an e-petition or changing my Twitter avatar.”

        — Matt Bailey (@mattb811)

“Happiness is not a reward – it’s a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it’s a result.”

        — Robert Ingersoll

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

        — Charles M. Schulz

“Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”

        — Wilson Mizner

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

“PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.”

        — Jon Ribbens

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

        — Fred Brooks

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”

        — Edna Woolman Chase

“The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9.”

        — Werner Trobin

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

        — Martin Heidegger

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

        — Leo Tolstoy

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.”

        — J. C. Watts

I confessed to my mother that I’ve been hallucinating again and she said, “Well, at least, you’re seeing someone.”

        — Mr. Won’t (@Brain_Wash)

“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

        — Hofstadter’s Law

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

        — Erin Major

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

        — Dennis M. Ritchie

“I can picture in my mind a world without war and without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”

        — Jack Handey (@Thinking_Deep)

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”

        — Lucille Ball

“Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

        — Robert Heinlein

“Outside noisy, inside empty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

        — Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“The day Microsoft makes something that doesn’t suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.”

        — Ernst Jan Plugge

“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.”

        — Keith Bostic

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

        — Josephine Hart, Damage

“I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.”

        — Oktal

“Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

        — St Antoine de Exupéry

“Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.”

        — Thomas C. Gale

“May this new decade be one of diversity instead of paranoia, of forgiveness instead of punishment, of equality instead of privilege.”

        — Van Badham (@vanbadham)