“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“No matter what amazing things you accomplish or how fantastic you are, a cat will always think it is better than you.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Corporate policy is the great leveller, allows the gibbering idiot not to think and drives the intelligent to gibbering idiocy.”

        — Adam Donnison

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

        — Grey Livingston

“Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.”

        — Douglas Adams

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon feed them.”

        — Ian Kiernan

“If you lend someone twenty dollars, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”

        — Unknown

“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

        — Unknown

“Everybody always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.”

        — Mark Twain

“When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb.”

        — Amazon interview candidate

“We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.”

        — Unknown

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

“All the world’s a stage! And here I am in the blooper reel!”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

/* Sometimes I believe the compiler ignores all my comments. */

        — Unknown Programmer

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realise what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”

        — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”

        — Ira Gassen

“I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.”

        — Bern Williams

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

        — Henry Ford

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.”

        — John Greenleaf Whittier

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

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance