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

        — Mark Twain

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”

        — Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.”

        — Unknown

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

        — Josh Billings

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

        — Bertha Calloway

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

        — Carl Jung

“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”

        — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”

        — Robert Byrne

“The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9.”

        — Werner Trobin

“In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.”

        — Jeff Bezos

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”

        — Unknown

“Failure is an event, never a person.”

        — William D. Brown

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”

        — Rich Kulawiec

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

        — John Cage

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

        — Vivian Greene

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

        — Arthur Miller

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

        — John LeCarre

“Hatred is one long wait.”

        — René Maran

“We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?”

        — Dorothe Deluzy