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

        — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“God is good, but never dance in a small boat.”

        — Irish Saying

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“A company that focuses solely on profits ultimately betrays both itself and society.”

        — Bill Hewlett and David Packard

“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.”

        — Wendell Phillips

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

        — Will Rogers

“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon feed them.”

        — Ian Kiernan

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”

        — Erma Bombeck

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

        — Robert Heinlein

“Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.”

        — Unknown

“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”

        — John Henry Cardinal Newman

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.”

        — Unknown

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

“Never try to look cool and learn something at the same time. You must have an awkward phase.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

        — Warren G. Bennis

“Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.”

        — Unknown

“Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.”

        — Unknown

(Say hi to your mum for me on Mothers’ Day this Sunday.)

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

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

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

        — Liz Smith

“‘Need’ is irrelevant here. People do not need phones. They need food, shelter, and running faster than lions.”

        — Thomas Pornin in The DMZ