“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