“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