“A Platypus is a duck designed by a committee.”

        — Unknown

“Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbour is a spiritual one.”

        — Nikolai Bardlyaev

“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”

        — Unknown

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.”

        — Unknown

“The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.”

        — William E. Simon

“Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise.”

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

        — John Dewey

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

        — Flannery O’Connor

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

“The man who never reads lives only once.”

        — George R. R. Martin

“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

“Women were meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.”

        — David Cain

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week”

        — Spanish Proverb

“Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.”

        — Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi)

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

        — Thomas Jefferson

“I think it’s adorable when people assume I’m interested in anything they have to say before I’ve had my coffee.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

        — Confucius

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler