“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

        — Hofstadter’s Law

“There’s nothing more noble than a good try.”

        — Gordon Parks

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

        — Nelson Mandela

“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.”

        — Flash Rosenberg

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

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

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

        — Unknown

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when looked at in the right way, did not become more complicated.”

        — Poul Anderson

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Don’t be sad because its over. Smile because it happened.”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

“By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

        — Socrates

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

        — John LeCarre

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

“No matter what it is I’m doing, there’s always about an 85% chance I’m supposed to be doing something else.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

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

        — Jeff Jarvis, This Week in Google

“It’s hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott and Costello world.”

        — Unknown

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

        — James Bryant Conant

“War does not determine who is right, only who is left.”

        — Bertrand Russell

“Dogs with thumbs would make you coffee, cats with thumbs would steal your car.”

        — Richard Stevens (@rstevens)

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”

        — Emma Goldman

“Once the last developer is locked up and the last idea patented you will realise that lawyers can’t program.”

        — Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)

“If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.”

        — Alfred Fripp