“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”

        — Kenyan proverb

“Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

        — Lois Wyse

“Once the last developer is locked up and the last idea patented you will realise that lawyers can’t program.”

        — Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)

We have not succeeded in answering all your problems.

The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions.

In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

        — Unknown

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

        — Sir Winston Churchill

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

        — Mark Twain

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

“Grant me the serenity to accept the code I cannot change, the courage to refactor the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Unknown

“Eat the first Skittle in the bag like it’s the last Skittle in the bag.”

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

        — Sandra Carey

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

        — Clarence Darrow

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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

        — Mencius

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

        — Dennis M. Ritchie

“We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.”

        — Paul Boese

“A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”

        — Josh Billings

“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.”

        — Unknown

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”

        — George Orwell

“There are only two things software professionals dislike: the way things are, and change.”

        — Tobias Mayer (@tobiasmayer)