“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

        — Frank A. Clark

“He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I’m kinda glad he hit you.”

        — “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman

“The heart is the first feature of working minds.”

        — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

        — Unknown

“Dogs with thumbs would make you coffee, cats with thumbs would steal your car.”

        — Richard Stevens (@rstevens)

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

        — Sydney J. Harris

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

        — Carl Bard

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

        — Jim Barksdale (former Netscape CEO)

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”

        — Grey’s law

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”

        — Billy Wilder

“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

        — Hofstadter’s Law

“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”

        — Unknown

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”

        — Aesop

“The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it’s more like a tired feeling.”

        — Paula Poundstone

“You’re making this too complicated when it’s really quite simple. All you have to do is make the software completely configurable so it can do whatever I need it to.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

“There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”

        — Ursula K. Le Guin

“There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.”

        — Diana Trilling

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

        — Anthony Clark

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

        — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.”

        — Roger H. Lincoln

“Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity.”

        — Clay Shirky

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

        — Michel de Montaigne