“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet.”

        — Unknown

“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”

        — Howard Mumford Jones

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

        — John Cage

“Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.”

        — Pasi Sahlberg #

My personal pet peeve is how many people think the hard part is in the “big and hard problems” or in some fluffy but important-sounding thing like “innovation”. In fact, all the real work is in getting the details right. It’s that “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” thing. People seem to think that inspiration is the much bigger and important part of the two, but I’ve come to believe that while it’s important to have inspiration, where people actually stumble is when they can’t execute on that inspiration. Inspiration isn’t that rare in the end, but people who have it and then actually follow through… that’s rare.

        — Linus Torvalds

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

        — Mickey Rooney

“Twitter spoils us. If only we could limit people in real life to 140 characters or less.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.”

        — Paul Ehrlich

Saying, “We need to talk,” is the most efficient way to freak someone out.

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.”

        — Laurence J. Peter

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

“Abnormal: doing something more often than a psychologist would.”

        — Tony Atwood, MSc PhD AFBPsS MAPS MCCP

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when looked at in the right way, did not become more complicated.”

        — Poul Anderson

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool”

        — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”

        — John Quinton

“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility”

        — Newton Minow

“I guess cows aren’t into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.”

        — Anthony Clark

“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

        — Ursula K. Le Guin

“Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.”

        — Unknown