“Every time someone makes a programming tool for people who can’t program, you get programs written by people who can’t program.”

        — Scott Bellware (@ampgt)

“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.”

        — Merry Browne

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

        — Ellen Parr

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

        — Cory Doctorow #

“I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.”

        — Unknown

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

“The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”

        — Ira Gassen

“I know it’s impossible, but can you do it anyway?”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.”

        — Keith Bostic

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

        — Albert Einstein

“Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”

        — Robert C. Savage

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

        — J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

        — Mark Twain

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”

        — Aesop

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

        — Sam Rayburn

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

        — Mark Berry

“Programming is an art form that fights back.”

Ode to traffic jams
how I detest this time sink
where are flying cars?

        — Marissa (@dj_marz)

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”

        — Henry C. Link

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

        — Mark Twain

“If a web site goes down, and there’s nobody searching for it, is it really offline?”

        — Gary Markstein and Anthony Rubino Jr, Daddy’s Home

“Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.”

        — Dandemis

“My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.”

        — Ashleigh Brilliant

“It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.”

        — Millard Fuller

“Socialising on the internet is to socialising, what reality TV is to reality.”

        — Aaron Sorkin

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.”

        — John Greenleaf Whittier

“Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.”

        — Unknown

“Fortunately excitement is one of the contagious things children carry.”

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

        — Joseph Addison

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

        — Dale Carnegie

“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.”

        — Groucho Marx

“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.”

        — Voltaire

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”

        — Lynda Barry

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

        — William Safire

“When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb.”

        — Amazon interview candidate

“C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.”

        — Scott McKay

“Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.”

        — Miguel de Cervantes

“My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide.”

        — Unknown

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

        — Hofstadter’s Law

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

        — John Barrymore

“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson

“Winners win and losers have meetings.”

        — Ozzie Guillen

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.”

        — Anthony D’Angelo

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

“HTTP is the dial tone of the web.”

        — Chris Tucker

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”

        — Isaac Asimov

“With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

        — Andrew Jackson

“I don’t wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.”

        — Woody Allen

“Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.”

        — Lao Tzu

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

“Yesterday. All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.”

        — Ben Simo (@QualityFrog)

“What little food grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here, even more so.”

        — Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

        — W. M. Lewis

“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

“If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.”

        — Alfred Fripp

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

        — Upton Sinclair

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

“I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.”

        — Bern Williams

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

        — Henry Ford

“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.”

        — Flash Rosenberg

“All our knowledge transfer was done in person using heavy sarcasm and obscure hand waving.”

        — David Tate, Companies that support remote workers win against those that don’t

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

        — Frank A. Clark

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”

        — Doug Larson

“There are only two things software professionals dislike: the way things are, and change.”

        — Tobias Mayer (@tobiasmayer)

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

        — David Starr Jordan

“Remember, you can do work outside of your paid hours as well.”

        — Clients From Hell

“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.”

        — Haim Ginott

“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”

        — Robert Byrne

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

        — Mae West

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)

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

        — Robert A. Heinlein

“The biggest mistake men make is thinking they have to even remotely understand what it is that they’re apologising for.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

        — Albert Einstein

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

        — Anais Nin

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”

        — Dave Barry

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

        — Hunter S. Thompson

When we “solve” copyright problems at the expense of the Internet, we solve them at the expense of 21st-century society as a whole.

        — Cory Doctorow, It’s Time to Stop Talking About Copyright

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’”

        — Eve Merriam

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

        — Frederick Pohl

“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

“No one plans to fail. They just go online. Then check their e-mail. Then go to twitter… and it just happens organically.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

        — Jim Barksdale (former Netscape CEO)

“It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.”

        — Will Rogers

“Organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

“Always kiss your children good night, even if they’re already asleep.”

        — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Adulthood is like the vet, and we’re all the dogs that were excited for the car ride until we realized where we’re going.”

        — Stephanie McMaster (@Smethanie)

“I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”

        — Bella Abzug

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.”

        — Unknown

“I’m sorry but if you’re still using an AOL email address, I just can’t take you seriously.”

        — @HAL9000_

“He who has begun is half done.”

        — Horace

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

        — Louisa May Alcott

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

        — Judy Garland

“Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

        — Warren G. Bennis

“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”

        — Paul Eldridge

“We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.”

        — Paul Boese

“When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.”

        — Peter Williams

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

        — Richard Bach

“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.”

        — Ryan Singer

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

        — Anne Frank

“When you sling mud, you lose ground.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“Ever since I discovered Twitter, I’ve been trying to stop using it.”

        — Giles Bowkett

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

        — Edward Tufte

“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.”

        — Rabindranath Tagore

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

        — Aristotle

“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour’s.”

        — Richard Whately

That’s why it was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards — not “not doing magic” because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn’t. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.

        — Terry Pratchett

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging.”

        — Unknown

“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.”

        — Wendell Phillips

“Writing code a computer can understand is science. Writing code other programmers can understand is an art.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

        — James Oppenheim

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

        — James Nicoll

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

        — Ray Bradbury

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

        — William Somerset Maugham

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.”

        — Mistinguett

Pucker up, this Sunday is International Kissing Day!

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

“Corporate policy is the great leveller, allows the gibbering idiot not to think and drives the intelligent to gibbering idiocy.”

        — Adam Donnison

“Love is like Pi – natural, irrational, and VERY important.”

“I named my kitten Rose: fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.”

        — Astrid Alauda

“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.”

        — Mana (@damana)

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

        — Plato

“Depression means you cannot enjoy cats on the Internet.”

        — Paul Fenwick (watch @pjf’s five minute talk on YouTube)

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.”

        — Unknown

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”

        — Mark Twain

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”

        — Richard Carlson

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Twitter spoils us. If only we could limit people in real life to 140 characters or less.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“…Plus it’s the only way George Lucas characters will ever be three dimensional.”

        — Peter David

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

        — Francis Bacon

“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life – reciprocity.”

        — Confucius

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”

        — Edna Woolman Chase

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it necessary? Is it true? Does it improve upon the silence?”

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

“I am pretty sure no matter what I put in my Facebook status, I won’t cure cancer, help Haiti or raise awareness for anything, except my Facebook status.”

        — Lyz Lenz (@lyzl)

“Corporate policy is the great leveller, allows the gibbering idiot not to think and drives the intelligent to gibbering idiocy.”

        — Adam Donnison

“When you sling mud, you lose ground.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“Remember, you can do work outside of your paid hours as well.”

        — Clients From Hell

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

        — John F. Kennedy, 1962

“The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it’s more like a tired feeling.”

        — Paula Poundstone

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

        — Anne Frank

“If there were an antisocial networking site, I might join, but what would be the point?”

        — Annoyed Librarian

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

        — W. M. Lewis

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

        — John Ruskin

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

        — J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

“Eat the first Skittle in the bag like it’s the last Skittle in the bag.”

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

        — T. S. Eliot

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

        — Unknown

“The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.”

        — Audrey Hepburn

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

        — Henry Winkler

“When you judge someone it doesn’t define who they are, it defines who you are”

        — Unknown

“No matter how big and bad you are, when a two year old hands you a toy phone, you answer it.”

        — Unknown

“Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.”

        — African Proverb

“Programming close to the hardware is bare metal. Programming close to javascript is bare stupid.”

        — Eamon Brosnan

“Twitter: It’s like release early, release often for thinking.”

        — Glyn Moody (Linux.conf.au 2010 keynote)

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

        — Henrik Ibsen

“Never wear anything that panics the cat.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.”

        — Millard Fuller

“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.”

        — Unknown

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

        — Martin Heidegger

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

        — Les Brown

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

        — Colin Powell

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

        — Unknown

“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

        — W. A. Nance

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician & philosopher

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“At some point the entire universe will become a black, cold, lifeless void. So pass me my damned coffee.”

        — Unknown

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

        — Jim Barksdale (former Netscape CEO)

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“At some point the entire universe will become a black, cold, lifeless void. So pass me my damned coffee.”

        — Unknown

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

        — George E. Woodberry

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

        — James Nicoll

“All the world’s a stage! And here I am in the blooper reel!”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

        — Leonardo da Vinci

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician & philosopher

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

        — Upton Sinclair

We have not succeeded in answering all your problems.

The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions.

In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

        — Unknown

“Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

        — Albert Camus

“I loved Git until I tried it. Now I love Mercurial.”

        — Tor Norbye, The Java Posse Podcast

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

        — Bertha Calloway

“In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.”

        — Jeff Bezos

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

        — Henry Brooks Adams

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”

        — Spanish Proverb

“There’s nothing more noble than a good try.”

        — Gordon Parks

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

        — Colin Powell

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

        — Mark Twain

“God is good, but never dance in a small boat.”

        — Irish Saying

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”

        — Richard Carlson

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

        — Nelson Mandela

“Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.”

        — Neil Gaiman, 2012 New Year resolution

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”

        — Charles de Montesquieu

“Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colour blind.”

        — Austin O’Malley

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

        — Sydney J. Harris

“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.”

        — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.”

        — Doug Larson

“The day Microsoft makes something that doesn’t suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.”

        — Ernst Jan Plugge

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

        — Ray Bradbury

“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”

        — Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)

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

        — Henry Van Dyke

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”

        — Benjamin Jowett

“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”

        — Demosthenes

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

        — Bill Cosby

I confessed to my mother that I’ve been hallucinating again and she said, “Well, at least, you’re seeing someone.”

        — Mr. Won’t (@Brain_Wash)

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

        — Lewis Smedes

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

        — Andrew Jackson

“We’ve spent more money bailing out the banks, in one year, than we’ve spent on Science in Britain, since Jesus.”

        — Professor Brian Cox

“It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.”

        — Will Rogers

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.”

        — Lilly Tomlin

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

“Don’t fall in love, Odie. You already act stupid enough.”

        — Garfield (by Jim Davis)

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

        — Henry Ford

“The man who never reads lives only once.”

        — George R. R. Martin

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“A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children.”

        — David Brenner

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

        — Woody Allen

“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

        — Peter Drucker

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.”

        — Yiddish Proverb

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

        — Albert Einstein

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Interpretive dance, when it succeeds, is still a failure.”

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

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’”

        — Eve Merriam

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

        — Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”

        — Spanish Proverb

“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”

        — Georges Bernanos, The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos (1955), “Why Freedom?”

“I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.”

        — Mark Twain

“Then what are we fighting for?”

        — Winston Churchill in response to a suggestion of cutting arts funding to support the war effort

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

        — Carl Bard

“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.”

        — Rebecca West

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“The illiterate of the 21st Century won’t be those can’t read and write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn and re-learn.”

        — Alvin Tofler

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”

        — Lillian Hellman

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela