“The obstacle is the path.”

        — Zen Proverb

“Serendipity is not randomness, serendipity […] is unexpected relevance.”

        — Jeff Jarvis, This Week in Google

“One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.”

        — Charles P. Issawi

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

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

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“It was pretty much an accident because I didn’t mean it!”

        — Raven Hinton, aged 8

“Existential threats don’t scare us. We’re librarians.”

        — Bethany Nowviskie #

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

        — George E. Woodberry

“As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master once you utter it, you are its slave.”

        — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

“It’s not whether you win or lose – but whether I win or lose.”

        — Sandy Lyle

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

        — Leo Tolstoy

“My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.”

        — Linda Sunshine

“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.”

        — Unknown

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

        — Marshall McLuhan

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

        — Martin Heidegger

“We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.”

        — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

        — Unknown

“Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

        — Lois Wyse

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

“Never mistake motion for action.”

        — Ernest Hemingway

“Dogs with thumbs would make you coffee, cats with thumbs would steal your car.”

        — Richard Stevens (@rstevens)

“There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.”

        — Diana Trilling