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

        — Samuel Butler

“Stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out?”

        — Will Rogers

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

        — Johann von Goethe

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

        — Les Brown

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”

        — Robert Graves

“He who has begun is half done.”

        — Horace

That’s why it was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards — not “not doing magic” because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn’t. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.

        — Terry Pratchett

“A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.”

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

        — T. S. Eliot

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

        — Upton Sinclair

“You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Unknown

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

“Remember, good code is like a good joke: It needs no explanation.”

        — Unknown

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

        — Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”

        — Ghose Aurobindo

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

        — Bern Williams

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

        — Winston Churchill

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

        — Sidney Greenberg

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

        — Fred Brooks