“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.”