“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

“Programming close to the hardware is bare metal. Programming close to javascript is bare stupid.”

        — Eamon Brosnan

“Forever is composed of nows.”

        — Emily Dickinson

“If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait till you hire an amateur.”

        — Red Adair

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

        — Henry Ford

“Twitter: It’s like release early, release often for thinking.”

        — Glyn Moody (Linux.conf.au 2010 keynote)

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”

        — Shelby Foote

“Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.”

        — Mark Epstein

“Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.”

        — Laurence J. Peter

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

        — Carrie Fisher

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

        — Andre Gide

When we “solve” copyright problems at the expense of the Internet, we solve them at the expense of 21st-century society as a whole.

        — Cory Doctorow, It’s Time to Stop Talking About Copyright

My personal pet peeve is how many people think the hard part is in the “big and hard problems” or in some fluffy but important-sounding thing like “innovation”. In fact, all the real work is in getting the details right. It’s that “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” thing. People seem to think that inspiration is the much bigger and important part of the two, but I’ve come to believe that while it’s important to have inspiration, where people actually stumble is when they can’t execute on that inspiration. Inspiration isn’t that rare in the end, but people who have it and then actually follow through… that’s rare.

        — Linus Torvalds

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

        — Plato

“Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.”

        — Lao Tzu

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

        — Roger Miller

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

        — Caprice Crane

“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”

        — Paul Eldridge

“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”

        — Unknown

“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

“Outside noisy, inside empty.”

        — Chinese Proverb