“Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.”

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”

        — Edgar J. Mohn

“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.”

        — Ryan Singer

No matter what your Chinese symbol tattoo says, I’m going to assume the translation is: “Please think I’m cool.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working as soon as you open Windows”

        — Unknown

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

        — Harold Wilson

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.”

        — Lilly Tomlin

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

        — Mae West

“Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.”

        — Unknown

“It was pretty much an accident because I didn’t mean it!”

        — Raven Hinton, aged 8

“The two best weapons for fighting off the demons of fear: laughter and math. I’m lousy at math.”

        — Jake Adelstein (@jakeadelstein)

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

        — Jack London

“It isn’t kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.”

        — Lawana Blackwell

“One man’s constant is another man’s variable.”

        — Alan Perlis

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life – for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.”

        — Laura Teresa Marquez

“Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.”

        — Evan Edgar

“Decorate yourself from the inside out.”

        — Terri Guillemets

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

        — Danny Kaye

“Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.”

        — Grey Livingston

“Twitter spoils us. If only we could limit people in real life to 140 characters or less.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t.”

        — Tom Waits

“No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.”

        — D. H. Lawrence

“Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

        — Lois Wyse

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

        — Lily Tomlin

“Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.”

        — Unknown

“If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.”

        — Unknown

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

        — Dale Carnegie

“Labels are for cans, not for people.”

        — Andy Warhol