“Twitter: It’s like release early, release often for thinking.”

        — Glyn Moody (Linux.conf.au 2010 keynote)

“Never let your past dictate who you are, but let it be a part of who you’ll become.”

        — Nick Portokalos

“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.”

        — Anonymous

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”

        — Louis D. Brandeis

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

“‘Need’ is irrelevant here. People do not need phones. They need food, shelter, and running faster than lions.”

        — Thomas Pornin in The DMZ

“On the Internet, nobody can hear you being subtle.”

        — Linus Torvalds

“Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.”

        — Grey Livingston

“Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.”

        — Irisa Hail

“It’s so useless but it’s awesome!”

        — Benjamin Humphrey (@humphreybc), Linux.conf.au 2012

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

        — Kimberly Johnson

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.”

        — Jeff Bezos

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another”

        — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III Scene I

“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.”

        — John LeCarre

“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”

        — Helen Hays

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

        — John Wooden

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

        — Mark Twain