“If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.”

        — Unknown

“May this new decade be one of diversity instead of paranoia, of forgiveness instead of punishment, of equality instead of privilege.”

        — Van Badham (@vanbadham)

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

        — Kahlil Gibran

“I am in favour of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands - after all, one must start somewhere.”

        — Sacha Guitry

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”

        — William Safire

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

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

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

        — Voltaire

“Bing is a great Website for doing Internet searches. I know that, because I Googled it.”

        — Stephen Colbert

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

        — Edward Tufte

“Stock photos are the bullet points of the twenty-first century.”

        — Martin Fowler

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

        — Laurence Peter

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

        — Alfred North Whitehead

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

        — Howard Scott

“Some people are like slinkies – not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.”

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.”

        — James Branch Cabell

“Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it”

        — Frederick Pohl

(R.I.P. 26 Nov 1919 — 2 Sep 2013)

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb