“No matter what amazing things you accomplish or how fantastic you are, a cat will always think it is better than you.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

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

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

        — Mark Russell

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

        — Derek Bok

“Stupidity on the Internet is there for everyone to see for all times in perpetuity.”

        — Ron Kuby

“It takes a considerable amount of effort to learn Vim. It takes twice as much to unlearn it.”

        — john2x on Hacker News

“No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.”

        — Niels Bohr

Debt, n.

An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.

        — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

“Critical decisions need to be made as late as possible, but before they make themselves.”

        — Mary Poppendieck, YOW! 2010

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

        — Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

“It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.”

        — J. Petit Senn

“When you’re in that voting booth with just your conscience and a pen, take the pen because that’s all you’ll ever get out of them.”

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

        — H. L. Mencken

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

        — Paula Poundstone

“People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it’s one or the other.”

        — Caprice Crane

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

        — Arthur Miller

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”

        — Andre Gide

“I am no longer willing to drive toward the future, using the rear-view mirror as my means of navigation.”

        — Anthony Robbins

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

        — Frederick Douglass