“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

        — Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

“People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.”

        — Unknown

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin

“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.”

        — Leo Rosten

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

“It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

“Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.”

        — Unknown

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”

        — Satchel Paige

“Programming close to the hardware is bare metal. Programming close to javascript is bare stupid.”

        — Eamon Brosnan

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton

“Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise.”

“In the olden days, if you wanted to watch an American TV show as soon as it came out, you had to get an expensive flight to America every week. But now, thanks to the internet, it’s much easier to find cheaper flights to America.”

        — Tim Berners-Lee

“I mean seriously, aren’t there days when you’d rather open an artery than check your email?”

        — J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski)

“Organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

        — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers ‘users’”

        — Edward Tufte

“My writing process: 50 percent pacing, 20 percent snacks, 18 percent furious weeping, 12 percent actual writing.”

        — Brendan I. Koerner (@brendankoerner)

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”

        — Samuel Butler

“There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.”

        — Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)

“Dear coffee: we had a deal. I’d put you in my body, you would give me super powers. WTF happened?”

        — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

        — Sir Winston Churchill