“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)

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“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