“I think I just ate my willpower.”

        — Unknown

(Good luck to all those with New Year resolutions.)

“Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.”

        — George Santayana

“Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.”

        — David Cain

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.”

        — Robert Zend

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

        — Roy L. Smith

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”

        — Lady Bird Johnson

“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”

        — Unknown

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

        — Josh Billings

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.”

        — Unknown

“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

“Rewriting is an opportunity to find new ways of coding old bugs, as well as exciting new bugs.”

        — Unknown

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

        — Euripides

“The bigger the hat, the smaller the property.”

        — Australian Proverb

“Gantt charts aren’t a management tool. They are a visualization tool. Management tools are listening, acting, and faith.”

        — John Kordyback ‏(@jkordyback)

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

        — Francis Bacon

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

        — Alfred Adler

“Sometimes when you trade tradition for progress you wind up with neither. This isn’t one of those occasions but still, it’s a catchy saying.”

        — In Plain Sight

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”

        — Unknown

“It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren’t so handy in the refrigerator.”

        — Hugh Allen

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.”

        — Bern Williams

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

        — John Barrymore

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Internet is a marvellous tool for finding solutions to problems I never had prior to the Internet.”

        — Unknown

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

        — Eugene F. Ware

“No matter what amazing things you accomplish or how fantastic you are, a cat will always think it is better than you.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.”

        — Unknown

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

        — Henri Louis Bergson

“The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.”

        — Samuel Johnson

/* Sometimes I believe the compiler ignores all my comments. */

        — Unknown Programmer

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”

        — Demosthenes

“Don’t anthropomorphise computers. They hate it.”

        — Unknown

“There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.”

        — Roger H. Lincoln

“Sometimes you’re the windshield, and sometimes you’re the bug.”

        — Mark Knopfler

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

        — Naguib Mahfouz

“People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.”

        — Unknown

“If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.”

        — Alan Cooper

“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.”

        — Kurt Vonnegut

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

        — Unknown

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

        — Roger Miller

“If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.”

        — Alfred Fripp

“It’s not whether you win or lose – but whether I win or lose.”

        — Sandy Lyle

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”

        — Billy Wilder

“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”

        — John Henry Cardinal Newman

“Confusion is a renewable resource.”

        — Kent Beck (@KentBeck)

“If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.”

        — Eli Siegel

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“Never mistake motion for action.”

        — Ernest Hemingway

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

“Visual programming is like trying to get to the moon by climbing a tree. You make a lot of good early progress, at first, but pretty soon you have to go back to your funding agency and ask for a bigger tree.”

        — Unknown

“I am driven by two main philosophies: know more about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

        — Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.”

        — Russian Proverb

“If you lend someone twenty dollars, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”

        — Unknown

Your success really depends on how loosely you’re willing to define the word “success.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

        — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Books are the closest thing to real magic I could ever find. How else could sheets of paper transport me to another world?”

        — Brian Rathbone (@BrianRathbone)

“Cleaning code does NOT take time. NOT cleaning code does take time.”

        — Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin)

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it necessary? Is it true? Does it improve upon the silence?”

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

        — Unknown

“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

        — Will Rogers

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

“We’ve spent more money bailing out the banks, in one year, than we’ve spent on Science in Britain, since Jesus.”

        — Professor Brian Cox

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”

        — Richard Carlson

“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers ‘users’”

        — Edward Tufte

“I’m toying with the idea of becoming a useful member of society.”

        — Wally from Dilbert, by Scott Adams

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”

        — Robert Graves

“All the world’s a stage! And here I am in the blooper reel!”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”

        — Aesop

“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.”

        — Voltaire

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realise what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”

        — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”

        — William Feather

Saying, “We need to talk,” is the most efficient way to freak someone out.

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

        — Woodrow Wilson

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”

        — E. Joseph Cossman

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

        — Marshall McLuhan

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

        — William Penn

“Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

        — Aaron Sorkin #

“Programmers don’t burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not ‘shipping’.”

        — Mark Berry

“Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

        — David Letterman

“I love that sound a metaphor makes as it begins to fall apart.”

        — Mark Ryall (@markryall)

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”

        — Neil Gaiman

“Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus.”

        — Jessica Hagy #

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

        — Michel de Montaige

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.”

        — Unknown

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

        — Rabindranath Tagore

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

        — Aristotle

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

        — Anais Nin

“Multitasking, that characteristic survival activity of the 21st century.”

        — Cory Doctorow #

“Chocolate is ground from the beans of happiness.”

        — Alexis F. Hope

“Money may talk, but chocolate sings.”

        — Unknown

“Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.”

        — Pasi Sahlberg #

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

        — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.”

        — Unknown

“Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalising animal.”

        — Robert A. Heinlein

“My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.”

        — Linda Sunshine

“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.”

        — C. A. R. Hoare

“Existential threats don’t scare us. We’re librarians.”

        — Bethany Nowviskie #

“People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.”

        — Anonymous

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

        — Henry Ford

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”

        — Isaac Asimov

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.”

        — Yiddish Proverb

“The world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the number of times you get back up.”

        — Aaron Sorkin #

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”

        — Henry C. Link

“We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?”

        — Dorothe Deluzy

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”

        — Claude Lévi-Strauss

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

        — Mary Manin Morrissey

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

        — Winston Churchill

“But considering that the ancient Greeks created democracy and civilisation, you would think they would have created copyright law if they had wanted to.”

        — Lloyd Kaufman #

“I’m sorry but if you’re still using an AOL email address, I just can’t take you seriously.”

        — @HAL9000_

“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything, or nothing.”

        — Nancy Astor

“You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.”

        — Unknown

“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.”

        — Groucho Marx

“If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be human. You’d be a game-show host.”

        — Heathers

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

“The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging.”

        — Unknown

“I’m afraid of no man, and very few women.”

        — Unknown

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you just might miss it.”

        — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

“UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.”

        — Doug Gwyn

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

        — H. L. Mencken

“Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

        — Beverley Nichols

“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”

        — Mark Twain

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

        — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

        — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.”

        — Unknown

“Joy, I think, is a tougher, gutsier emotion than despair. We’re not going to mope our way to a brighter future or better lives.”

        — Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen)

“The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.”

        — Unknown

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

        — Sophia Loren

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

        — Sam Keen

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.”

        — Peter Williams

“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

        — Mickey Rooney

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.”

        — Jean Kerr

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

“No matter how big and bad you are, when a two year old hands you a toy phone, you answer it.”

        — Unknown

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.”

        — Unknown

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

        — Ray Bradbury

(Two quotes today, in memory of Mr. Bradbury.)

“I have never listened to anyone who criticised my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

        — Ray Bradbury

“We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.”

        — Unknown

“Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.”

        — Dandemis

“There’s nothing more noble than a good try.”

        — Gordon Parks

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and informed just to be undecided about them.”

        — Laurence J. Peter

“When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.”

        — Unkonwn

“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”

        — Bill Vaughan

“If you trip over a pun in your speaking it’s not so bad but to intentionally jump on one is a true offence.”

        — Graycie Harmon

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”

        — Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

        — Mark Twain

“Children have more need of models than of critics.”

        — Carolyn Coats

“The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

We have not succeeded in answering all your problems.

The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions.

In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

        — Unknown

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

        — Andre Gide

“Stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out?”

        — Will Rogers

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

        — Thomas Jefferson

“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon feed them.”

        — Ian Kiernan

“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

        — Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC)

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.”

        — Keith L. Brooks

(Don’t forget your mum on Mother’s Day this Sunday.)

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

        — Frederick Douglass

“Men are like a deck of cards. You’ll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.”

        — Laura Swenson

“Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”

        — Alfred E. Neuman

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

        — Japanese Proverb

“Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.”

        — Mason Cooley

“You just have to make the transition from weird to eccentric and then you’re okay.”

        — John Elder Robinson

“…and on the 3rd day God finished creating the Earth, and it looked fantastic and worked really well. And then he checked it in IE…”

        — Simon (@intruth)

“A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it.”

        — Unknown

“Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.”

        — Neil Gaiman, 2012 New Year resolution

“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.”

        — Mary Anne Radmacher

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

        — Winston Churchill

“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life.”

        — Catherine Spence

Advice (noun): the smallest current coin.

        — Unknown

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

        — Flannery O’Connor

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

        — Don Marquis

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

        — William Somerset Maugham

“I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the 21st century is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

“Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.”

        — Unknown

“Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”

        — Robert C. Savage

“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”

        — Ambrose Bierce

“Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.”

        — Douglas Adams

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

        — Frank A. Clark

“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”

        — Bob Talbert

“It’s hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott and Costello world.”

        — Unknown

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

        — Arthur Miller

“Remember, good code is like a good joke: It needs no explanation.”

        — Unknown

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”

        — John Quinton

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

        — Winston Churchill

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Leadership is action, not position.”

        — Donald H. McGannon

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

Whenever You meet a person for the first time, say in your head “I know you can read minds"… just in case.

        — Vincent Usher (@ushervince)

“There are only two things software professionals dislike: the way things are, and change.”

        — Tobias Mayer (@tobiasmayer)

“The wowser mistakes the world for a penitentiary and themselves as the warden.”

        — Australian observation

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

        — Woody Allen

“Do not confuse the value of learning something with the actual value of the thing learned.”

        — Ted Nyman (@tnm)

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

        — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.”

        — Richard Steele

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

        — Indira Gandhi

“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.”

        — Arthur Freed

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.”

        — Anthony D’Angelo

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”

        — William Shakespeare

“I follow a healthy lifestyle, but I rarely catch up with it.”

        — Thin Lines by Randy Glasbergen

“To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

        — E. E. Cummings

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

        — Don Herrold

The phrase, “Don’t take this the wrong way,” has a zero percent success rate.

        — Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan)

My personal pet peeve is how many people think the hard part is in the “big and hard problems” or in some fluffy but important-sounding thing like “innovation”. In fact, all the real work is in getting the details right. It’s that “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” thing. People seem to think that inspiration is the much bigger and important part of the two, but I’ve come to believe that while it’s important to have inspiration, where people actually stumble is when they can’t execute on that inspiration. Inspiration isn’t that rare in the end, but people who have it and then actually follow through… that’s rare.

        — Linus Torvalds

“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”

        — Voltaire

“If the guy next to you is swearing like a wharfie he’s probably a billionaire. Or, just conceivably, a wharfie.”

        — Australian observation

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

        — Ellen Parr

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.”

        — Lois Wyse

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“A nice thing about being single is when you’re setting the silverware it doesn’t matter which side you put the remote on.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

        — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

        — Warren G. Bennis

“I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.”

        — Mark Twain

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.”

        — Unknown

“A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road.”

        — Henry Ward Beecher

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

        — Abraham Lincoln

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”

        — Samuel Butler

When we “solve” copyright problems at the expense of the Internet, we solve them at the expense of 21st-century society as a whole.

        — Cory Doctorow, It’s Time to Stop Talking About Copyright

“I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.”

        — Arthur C. Clarke

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

        — Richard Buckminster Fuller

“With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.”

        — Richard Hamming

“It’s Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it’s human to do them.”

        — Hugh Mackay

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

        — Mark Twain

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”

        — Raymond Hull

“C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.”

        — Scott McKay

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

        — Will Rogers

My 4-year old told me how a double-sided pencil can be used even if one end is broken. I told her how to say “fault-tolerant redundancy.”

        — Chris Houser (@chrishouser)

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.”

        — Kathryn Carpenter

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

        — James Bryant Conant

“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.”

        — Jonatan Mårtensson

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.”

        — Franz Kafka

“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.”

        — Joseph Goebbels

“This crash always occured with the Skype toolbar, speaking of malware.”

        — Firefox Developer, Linux.conf.au 2012

“There is now ten times as many lines of legal text about BusyBox than there is lines of source code.”

        — Bruce Perens, Linux.conf.au 2012

“It’s so useless but it’s awesome!”

        — Benjamin Humphrey (@humphreybc), Linux.conf.au 2012

“If we decide the real world is wrong because it does not match our lab, we are not doing science, we are doing economics.”

        — Linux.conf.au 2012

“Twitter: It’s like release early, release often for thinking.”

        — Glyn Moody (Linux.conf.au 2010 keynote)

Note: I will be at Linux.conf.au 2012 next week, so don’t be surprised if there are a lot of techie quotes for the next few days!

“To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.”

        — Paul Ehrlich

“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.”

        — Doug Larson

“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.”

        — Mana (@damana)

“Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.”

        — Unknown

“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”

        — Unknown

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“Out in the bush, the tarred road always ends just after the house of the local mayor.”

        — Australian observation

“Laughter is a part of the human survival kit.”

        — David Nathan

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — William Connor Magee