“If you can put an axe through it, it’s hardware; if you want to put an axe through it, it’s software.”

        — Unknown

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

        — Les Brown

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

        — Edward Phelps

“I was a goth for two years. It turned out I was depressed.”

        — Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”

        — Calvin Coolidge

“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”

        — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

        — Samuel Beckett

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

        — Benjamin Franklin

“If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.”

        — Voltaire

“It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.”

        — David Cain

“‘Need’ is irrelevant here. People do not need phones. They need food, shelter, and running faster than lions.”

        — Thomas Pornin in The DMZ

“The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

“I am having an out of money experience.”

        — Unknown