“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