“The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9.”

        — Werner Trobin

“During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa.”

        — Unknown

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”

        — Lady Bird Johnson

“Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.”

        — Zen Proverb

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

        — Carl Sagan

“Stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out?”

        — Will Rogers

“The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.”

        — Lewis Thomas

“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.”

        — M. H. Alderson

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.”

        — Francis Bacon

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

        — Dennis M. Ritchie

“Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life – for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.”

        — Laura Teresa Marquez

“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.”

        — Franz Kafka

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

        — William Gibson

“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

        — Banksy

“Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”

        — Unknown

“They make it look so easy. Connecting with another human being. It’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world.”

        — Dexter, “The Big One”

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

        — Don Herrold

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

        — Mana (@damana)

“I saw `cout’ being shifted “Hello world” times to the left and stopped right there.”

        — Steve Gonedes

“One accurate measurement is worth more than a thousand expert opinions.”

        — Grace Hopper

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

        — Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”

        — Spanish Proverb

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

        — Robert Anthony

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

        — Confucius

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it’s still on the list!”

        — Unknown

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

        — Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”

        — Bonnie Prudden

“The iPhone may be a fascist regime, but the trains run on time and the streets are very well maintained.”

        — Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror)

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician & philosopher

“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

        — Unknown

“If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.”

        — Eli Siegel

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”

        — Claude Lévi-Strauss

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton

“May you live in interesting times.”

        — Chinese curse (apocryphal)

Haikus are easy,
but sometimes they don’t make sense.
Refrigerator

“I can’t recall the last time I was in a fight like that. No moral ambiguity. No hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. The were the bad guys, as you say. We were the good guys. And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor.”

        — G’Kar, Babylon 5, A Late Delivery from Avalon

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

        — Laurence Peter

“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life.”

        — Catherine Spence

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

        — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”

“Once the last developer is locked up and the last idea patented you will realise that lawyers can’t program.”

        — Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)

“Does anybody remember Microsoft? They use to be a big company.”

        — Mitch Wagner, This Week in Google

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

        — Indira Gandhi

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”

        — Jonathan Winters

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

        — Johann von Goethe

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”

        — William Feather

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

        — Tallulah Bankhead

“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.”

        — Unknown

The phrase, “Don’t take this the wrong way,” has a zero percent success rate.

        — Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan)

“War does not determine who is right, only who is left.”

        — Bertrand Russell

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — Edward Phelps

“Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity.”

        — Clay Shirky

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

        — Garfield (by Jim Davis)

“Money may talk, but chocolate sings.”

        — Unknown

“I’d rather regret the things I have done than the things I haven’t done.”

        — Lucille Ball

“English is already a fairly succinct language, but it appears to be succinctering.”

        — Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge)

“If you can put an axe through it, it’s hardware; if you want to put an axe through it, it’s software.”

        — Unknown

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

        — Vivian Greene

“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.”

        — Unknown

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

        — Jack London

“I mean seriously, aren’t there days when you’d rather open an artery than check your email?”

        — J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski)

“Take from the altars of the past the fire – not the ashes.”

        — Jean Jaures

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

        — T. S. Eliot

“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”

        — Mae West

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

        — Ernest Gaines

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

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

“Visual programming is like trying to get to the moon by climbing a tree. You make a lot of good early progress, at first, but pretty soon you have to go back to your funding agency and ask for a bigger tree.”

        — Unknown

“Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”

        — Mae West

“There’s a word for a writer who never gives up… published.”

        — Joe Konrath

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

        — Yiddish Proverb

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

        — Unknown

“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”

        — Edgar J. Mohn

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

        — Werner Finck

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

        — John Locke

“You have reached the Internal Revenue Service. To confess in English, press one…”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”

        — John Cassis

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

        — Michel de Montaigne

“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

“God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.”

        — Garrison Keillor

Javascript had to “look like Java” only less so, be Java’s dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than Javascript would have happened.

        — Brendan Eich, creator of Javascript

“Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.”

        — Mother Teresa

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

        — Winston Churchill

“They say if you play that Microsoft CD backward you hear satanic messages. But that’s nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows.”

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

        — Charles Buxton

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

        — Richard Carlson

“At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.”

        — Marshall Lumsden

“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

        — Katharine Brush

“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”

        — Richard J. Needham

“A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

        — George Santayana

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

        — Mark Twain

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

        — Rabindranath Tagore

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

        — Eamon Brosnan

“People, when they talk about change, are thinking that it’s going to change for other people.”

        — William Gormley

“Stock photos are the bullet points of the twenty-first century.”

        — Martin Fowler

Hate a liar more than you hate a thief. A thief is only after our salary, a liar is after our reality.

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

“The difference between a stupid man and a wise one is the stupid man’s inability to calculate the consequences of the action. The same goes for government.”

        — Brian Penton

“Silence was never written down.”

        — Italian Proverb

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

        — George Jean Nathan

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

        — Douglas MacArthur

“Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

        — David Letterman

“Everybody always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.”

        — Mark Twain

“…and on the 3rd day God finished creating the Earth, and it looked fantastic and worked really well. And then he checked it in IE…”

        — Simon (@intruth)

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

        — Fred Brooks

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

        — Mary Manin Morrissey

“The heart is the first feature of working minds.”

        — Frank Lloyd Wright

“Do not confuse the value of learning something with the actual value of the thing learned.”

        — Ted Nyman (@tnm)

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

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

        — Edna Woolman Chase

“I think of optimism as a brave choice rather than an ignorant position.”

        — Unknown

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and informed just to be undecided about them.”

        — Laurence J. Peter

“You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

        — Ann Lamott

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”

        — Unknown

“Outside noisy, inside empty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

        — Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

        — Milton Berle

“Leadership is action, not position.”

        — Donald H. McGannon

“The most valuable commodity of the twenty-first century will be undivided attention.”

        — Phil Cooke

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

        — Les Brown

“So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.”

        — Jason Love

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

        — Sidney Greenberg

“Every day one should at least listen to a little song, read a good poem, look at a fine painting, and, if possible, say a few reasonable words.”

        — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”

        — Emma Goldman

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”

        — Robert Graves

“Never try to look cool and learn something at the same time. You must have an awkward phase.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The shortest answer is doing.”

        — George Herbert

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.”

        — Soren Kierkegaard

“The worst thing to be is successful as someone else.”

        — Jay-Z

“If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be human. You’d be a game-show host.”

        — Heathers

“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”

        — Marcel Marceau

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

        — Mark Twain

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

        — Ernest Hemingway

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

        — Pearl Bailey

“If at first you don’t succeed, that’s one data point.”

        — xkcd by Randall Munroe

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

        — Josephine Hart, Damage

“Be curious, not judgemental.”

        — Walt Whitman

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

        — Roger Miller

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

        — Japanese Proverb

“If the guy next to you is swearing like a wharfie he’s probably a billionaire. Or, just conceivably, a wharfie.”

        — Australian observation

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

“Never be afraid to try, remember… Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

        — Unknown

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“You never truly understand concurrency until you’ve had your second child”

        — Old Erlang saying

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

        — William Penn

“I am in favour of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands - after all, one must start somewhere.”

        — Sacha Guitry

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

        — Howard Scott

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”

        — Lucille Ball

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

        — Plato

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

        — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Gantt charts aren’t a management tool. They are a visualization tool. Management tools are listening, acting, and faith.”

        — John Kordyback ‏(@jkordyback)

“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

        — Agnes Allen

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

        — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”

        — E. Joseph Cossman

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

        — Clarence Darrow

“They say a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Why the truth is pantsless, no one mentions.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“I was a goth for two years. It turned out I was depressed.”

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

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.”

        — Unknown

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

        — Lily Tomlin

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

        — Benjamin Jowett

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“I will get through today with coffee and patience. Right now, what I have is coffee.”

        — Unknown

“Some people are like slinkies – not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.”

“Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.”

        — Thomas C. Gale

“We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.”

        — Proverb

“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”

        — Unknown

“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”

        — Archibald MacLeish

“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.”

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t.”

        — Tom Waits

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“I know that you gave us exactly what we asked for, but these are really not what we were hoping for.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

“Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.”

        — Mark van Doren

“Failure is an event, never a person.”

        — William D. Brown

“I have never lowered myself to name calling, and I’m not about to start on account of that prat.”

        — Unknown

“Dear coffee: we had a deal. I’d put you in my body, you would give me super powers. WTF happened?”

        — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)

“I am driven by two main philosophies: know more about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

        — Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.”

        — G. M. Weilacher

“If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.”

        — George Barzan

“Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”

        — Max L. Forman

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

        — William Shakespeare

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

        — Saint Augustine

“A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road.”

        — Henry Ward Beecher

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”

        — William James

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

        — Leo Buscaglia

“You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”

        — Unknown

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”

        — Shelby Foote

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

        — Jeff Hammerbacher

“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

        — Albert Einstein

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.”

        — Lois Wyse

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”

        — Richard Buckminster Fuller

“He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.”

        — Turkish Proverb

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

        — Adam Donnison

“Sometimes there is a silver bullet for boosting software engineering productivity. But you need to shoot the right person.”

        — Michael Stal (@stal_m)

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

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“C++ are the smartest programmers on the planet. If you don’t believe me, ask any one of them.”

        — Don Box

My 4-year old told me how a double-sided pencil can be used even if one end is broken. I told her how to say “fault-tolerant redundancy.”

        — Chris Houser (@chrishouser)

“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?”

“The only things that are certain in life are death and taxes and my murderous rage if you don’t order your own fries and keep eating mine.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.”

        — Unknown

“I was married by a judge – I should have asked for a jury.”

        — Groucho Marx

“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

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”

        — Maurice Freehill

“I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.”

        — Arthur C. Clarke

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.”

        — William Faulkner

He who think by the inch,
and talk by the mile,
ought to be kicked by the foot.

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

        — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Books are the closest thing to real magic I could ever find. How else could sheets of paper transport me to another world?”

        — Brian Rathbone (@BrianRathbone)

“It isn’t kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.”

        — Lawana Blackwell

“A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.”

        — Doug Larson

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

        — St Antoine de Exupéry

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”

        — Lane Olinghouse

“Then what are we fighting for?”

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

“There is absolutely no reason to make computers as stupid as people are.”

        — Nigel Jacob

“I remember when social networking was something that happened in person. How awkward.”

        — Caprice Crane

“Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”

        — Wilson Mizner

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”

        — Jennifer Yane

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”

        — George Orwell

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

“You’re making this too complicated when it’s really quite simple. All you have to do is make the software completely configurable so it can do whatever I need it to.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

        — Will Rogers

“Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.”

        — Douglas Adams

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

        — Winston Churchill

“A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it.”

        — Unknown

“He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I’m kinda glad he hit you.”

        — “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman

“Good design is clear thinking made visible. Bad design is stupidity made visible.”

        — Edward Tufte

“Have your master keys locked in a vault and guarded by dogs. Mean dogs. Dogs with two factor authentication.”

        — Tom Eastman (@tveastman) #lca2016

“Thoughtful and productive communities make us as a species better."

        — Jono Bacon #lca2016

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

        — Jim Rohn

“A nice thing about being single is when you’re setting the silverware it doesn’t matter which side you put the remote on.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”

        — Jorge Luis Borges

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

        — Doug Larson

“The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.”

        — Germain G. Glien

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”

        — Mario Andretti

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

        — Garth Brooks

“It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

        — Unknown

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

        — Winston Churchill

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

        — Kahlil Gibran

“Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning ‘lousy hunter.’”

        — Andy Rooney

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

        — Carrie Fisher

“When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.”

        — Unkonwn

Yesterday it built.
No change; today it does not.
The code has feelings.

        — Pete Goodliffe

“If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.”

        — Unknown

“Americans will always reach for their lawyers first.”

        — Neil Brennan, Ignite Melbourne 2010

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

        — Unknown

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

        — Winston Churchill

“Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.”

        — Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

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

        — Plato

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”

        — George Eliot

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

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

        — Rita Mae Brown

“Home is where you hang your @.”

        — Unknown