“When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Ryan Singer

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”

        — Richard J. Needham

“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

        — Unknown

“Depression means you cannot enjoy cats on the Internet.”

        — Paul Fenwick (watch @pjf’s five minute talk on YouTube)

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”

        — John Quinton

“If it ain’t broke, it’s probably a banker.”

        — Dolly (@TheDollSays)

“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”

        — Oscar Wilde

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

        — Aristotle

“Being a creator of software systems is like being a god. Only without the omnipotence, omnipresence or omniscience.”

        — Brent Snook (@brentsnook)

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin

“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)

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

        — Charles M. Schulz

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

        — Pablo Casals

“There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.”

        — Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)

“We’re not just just humans anymore. We’re not multiple personalities, we’re many personalities… uh, one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality but that doesn’t make me a multiple personality. I’m looking for a little nuance here.”

        — Alpha, Dollhouse

“I can picture in my mind a world without war and without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”

        — Jack Handey (@Thinking_Deep)

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

        — Plutarch

“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”

        — Unknown