“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