“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