Wednesday, July 31, 2019

“There are only two kinds of [programming] languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

“Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.”

        — Pablo Picasso

Monday, July 29, 2019

“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

Friday, July 26, 2019

“No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, July 25, 2019

“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility”

        — Newton Minow

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Ode to traffic jams
how I detest this time sink
where are flying cars?

        — Marissa (@dj_marz)

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

“Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.”

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

Monday, July 22, 2019

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

        — Unknown

Friday, July 19, 2019

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

Thursday, July 18, 2019

“Twitter: It’s like release early, release often for thinking.”

        — Glyn Moody (Linux.conf.au 2010 keynote)

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

Monday, July 15, 2019

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

        — Judy Garland

Friday, July 12, 2019

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”

        — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

Thursday, July 11, 2019

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

        — Michel de Montaigne

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

“I’d rather regret the things I have done than the things I haven’t done.”

        — Lucille Ball

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

“Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”

        — Max L. Forman

Monday, July 8, 2019

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

        — Ghose Aurobindo

Friday, July 5, 2019

“Serendipity is not randomness, serendipity […] is unexpected relevance.”

        — Jeff Jarvis, This Week in Google

Thursday, July 4, 2019

“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.”

        — Rabindranath Tagore

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another”

        — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III Scene I

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

        — Japanese Proverb

Monday, July 1, 2019

“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.”

        — John LeCarre