“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”

        — Lillian Hellman

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

        — Don Marquis

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

        — Joseph Conrad

“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”

        — Herbert Hoover

“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.”

        — Ryan Singer

“It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.”

        — Will Rogers

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.”

        — Unknown

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”

        — Neil Gaiman

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

        — Bill Cosby

“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.”

        — Joseph Goebbels

“Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs should get used to it.”

        — Robert Heinlein

“No one plans to fail. They just go online. Then check their e-mail. Then go to twitter… and it just happens organically.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”

        — Navajo Proverb

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

        — William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”

        — Luciano de Crescenzo

“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.”

        — Millard Fuller

“You just have to make the transition from weird to eccentric and then you’re okay.”

        — John Elder Robinson

Javascript had to “look like Java” only less so, be Java’s dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than Javascript would have happened.

        — Brendan Eich, creator of Javascript

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

        — Marshall McLuhan