“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

        — Richard Buckminster Fuller

“As user friendly as a cornered rat.”

        — Seen in a software review

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death”

        — H. H. Munro

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.”

        — Soren Kierkegaard

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“Well done is better than well said.”

        — Benjamin Franklin

“I remember when social networking was something that happened in person. How awkward.”

        — Caprice Crane

“Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.”

        — Unknown

“Religion is like a drug, in small doses it’s curative, in large, it’s addictive.”

        — Eli Gold, The Good Wife

“What little food grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here, even more so.”

        — Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon

“I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the 21st century is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

“Sometimes you’re the windshield, and sometimes you’re the bug.”

        — Mark Knopfler

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

        — Henry Ford

“Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.”

        — Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

“A man chases a woman until she catches him.”

        — American Proverb

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

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

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

        — Lillian Hellman

If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”

        — Epictetus

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

        — H. L. Mencken

“The biggest mistake men make is thinking they have to even remotely understand what it is that they’re apologising for.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct 1952