Friday, August 31, 2012

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

        — Mark Berry

Thursday, August 30, 2012

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

        — David Letterman

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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

        — Mark Ryall (@markryall)

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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

        — Neil Gaiman

Monday, August 27, 2012

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

        — Jessica Hagy #

Friday, August 24, 2012

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

        — Michel de Montaige

Thursday, August 23, 2012

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

        — Unknown

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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

        — Rabindranath Tagore

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

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

        — Aristotle

Monday, August 20, 2012

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

        — Anais Nin

Friday, August 17, 2012

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

        — Cory Doctorow #

Thursday, August 16, 2012

“Chocolate is ground from the beans of happiness.”

        — Alexis F. Hope

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

“Money may talk, but chocolate sings.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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

        — Pasi Sahlberg #

Monday, August 13, 2012

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

        — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Friday, August 10, 2012

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

        — Unknown

Thursday, August 9, 2012

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

        — Robert A. Heinlein

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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

        — Linda Sunshine

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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

        — C. A. R. Hoare

Monday, August 6, 2012

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

        — Bethany Nowviskie #

Friday, August 3, 2012

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

        — Anonymous

Thursday, August 2, 2012

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

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

        — Henry Ford