“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

        — Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

        — Don Herrold

“Interpretive dance, when it succeeds, is still a failure.”

        — Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010

“Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.”

        — Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

“Eat the first Skittle in the bag like it’s the last Skittle in the bag.”

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”

        — Ring Lardner

“Three words, eight letters, three syllables, five vowels, three consonants, two nouns, one emotion, many meanings, a big lie, a rare truth: I LOVE YOU!”

        — MJ (@_iamMJ)

He who think by the inch,
and talk by the mile,
ought to be kicked by the foot.

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

        — John Dewey

“Never be afraid to try, remember… Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

        — Unknown

“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.”

        — Merry Browne

“Laughter is a part of the human survival kit.”

        — David Nathan

“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.”

        — Arthur Freed

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

        — William Somerset Maugham

“The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.”

        — Mistinguett

“Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.”

        — Irisa Hail

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.”

        — Robert Zend

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”

        — Raymond Hull

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.”

        — John Greenleaf Whittier

“Liz is different from all the other girls I’ve known. For one thing, she likes me.”

        — Jon, Garfield

“The Internet is a marvellous tool for finding solutions to problems I never had prior to the Internet.”

        — Unknown

“I used to think I wasn’t a morning person, but things never got better after lunch.”

        — Wally from Dilbert by Scott Adams

“Find love when you have time, and find time when you already found the one to love.”

        — Terry Pratchett

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.”

        — Lilly Tomlin

“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”

        — Kenyan proverb

“Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity.”

        — Clay Shirky

“The plural of regex is regrets.”

        — John Opdenakker

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

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

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

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

        — Fred Brooks

“No one plans to fail. They just go online. Then check their e-mail. Then go to twitter… and it just happens organically.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.”

        — Unknown

“I love that sound a metaphor makes as it begins to fall apart.”

        — Mark Ryall (@markryall)

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

        — Caprice Crane

“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

        — Will Rogers

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

        — Francis Bacon

“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”

        — Richard J. Needham

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”

        — Ira Gassen

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”

        — Howard Aiken

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”

        — Richard Carlson

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

        — Judy Garland

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”

        — Alfred Korzybski

“There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.”

        — Roger H. Lincoln

“Technology doesn’t make us dumb. It just allows us to make others aware of how dumb we are.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

        — Les Brown

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.”

        — Francis Bacon

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day”

        — Sarah Hepola

“Visual programming is like trying to get to the moon by climbing a tree. You make a lot of good early progress, at first, but pretty soon you have to go back to your funding agency and ask for a bigger tree.”

        — Unknown

“PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.”

        — Jon Ribbens

“The only things that are certain in life are death and taxes and my murderous rage if you don’t order your own fries and keep eating mine.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

        — Don Marquis

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

        — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”

Yesterday it built.
No change; today it does not.
The code has feelings.

        — Pete Goodliffe

“Rewriting is an opportunity to find new ways of coding old bugs, as well as exciting new bugs.”

        — Unknown

“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”

        — Ghose Aurobindo

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

        — Edmund Burke

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

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

        — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”

        — Jerry Rice

Hip-hop music that is no longer popular should simply be referred to as “hop.”

        — Fake AP Stylebook (@FakeAPStylebook)

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

Saying, “We need to talk,” is the most efficient way to freak someone out.

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“Decorate yourself from the inside out.”

        — Terri Guillemets

“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.”

        — David Gelernter

“Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.”

        — Unknown

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.”

        — Mary Anne Radmacher

“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

        — Confucius

“It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren’t so handy in the refrigerator.”

        — Hugh Allen

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”

        — Errol Flynn

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

        — John Ruskin

“Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.”

        — George Santayana

“The problem with quick and dirty, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten.”

        — Steve C McConnell

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

        — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

        — Mark Twain

“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life – reciprocity.”

        — Confucius

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

        — Unknown

“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.”

        — G. M. Weilacher

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

        — James Nicoll

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it “the first law of personal growth.”

        — Peter McWilliams

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

        — Vivian Greene

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

        — Abigail Van Buren

“If the guy next to you is swearing like a wharfie he’s probably a billionaire. Or, just conceivably, a wharfie.”

        — Australian observation

“Well done is better than well said.”

        — Benjamin Franklin

“May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead.”

        — Irish Blessing

“Do not confuse the value of learning something with the actual value of the thing learned.”

        — Ted Nyman (@tnm)

“Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.”

        — Unknown

Hate a liar more than you hate a thief. A thief is only after our salary, a liar is after our reality.

“It’s so useless but it’s awesome!”

        — Benjamin Humphrey (@humphreybc), Linux.conf.au 2012

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”

        — Lane Olinghouse

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

        — Michael Leunig

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

        — Dale Carnegie

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

        — Plato

“A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.”

        — The Knights of Pythagoras

“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility”

        — Newton Minow

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

        — Will Rogers

“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”

        — Doug Gwyn

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

        — Mark Knopfler

“Home is where you hang your @.”

        — Unknown

“Have your master keys locked in a vault and guarded by dogs. Mean dogs. Dogs with two factor authentication.”

        — Tom Eastman (@tveastman) #lca2016

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

        — Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”

        — Mark Twain

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.”

        — Anthony D’Angelo

“We have two lives, and the second one begins when we realise we only have one.”

        — Confucius

“I love that sound a metaphor makes as it begins to fall apart.”

        — Mark Ryall (@markryall)

“He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.”

        — Turkish Proverb

“We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.”

        — Paul Boese

“Sometimes the most unnecessary parts are the most necessary parts.”

        — Caleb

“Organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

        — H. L. Mencken

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

        — Albert Einstein

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving words in evidence of the fact.”

        — George Elliot

“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

        — Katharine Brush

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

        — Garrison Keillor

“UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.”

        — Doug Gwyn

“Always kiss your children good night, even if they’re already asleep.”

        — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Fortunately excitement is one of the contagious things children carry.”

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)

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

        — Bertrand Russell

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

        — Howard Scott

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

        — Robert Anthony

“Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”

        — Alfred E. Neuman

“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”

        — Ghose Aurobindo

“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”

        — Voltaire

“The Internet is a marvellous tool for finding solutions to problems I never had prior to the Internet.”

        — Unknown

“There’s no thief like a bad movie.”

        — Sam Ewing

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”

        — George Orwell

“Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life – for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.”

        — Laura Teresa Marquez

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”

        — Navajo Proverb

“Telling a programmer there’s already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there’s already a song about love.”

        — Pete Cordell

“The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.”

        — Anonymous

“Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works.”

        — Michael Hartung

“Software being ‘Done’ is like lawn being ‘Mowed’.”

        — Jim Benson

“Outside noisy, inside empty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“I follow a healthy lifestyle, but I rarely catch up with it.”

        — Thin Lines by Randy Glasbergen

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”

        — Unknown

“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

        — Confucius

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

        — Jeff Jarvis, This Week in Google

“The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.”

        — Irwin Edman

“You never truly understand concurrency until you’ve had your second child”

        — Old Erlang saying

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

        — Sydney Smith

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

        — Colin Powell

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

        — H. H. Munro

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

        — Flannery O’Connor

“The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.”

        — Samuel Johnson

“Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”

        — Unknown

“There are those that avoid failure, and those that seek success; those that avoid complexity, and those that seek simplicity.”

        — Simon Harris (@haruki_zaemon)

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”

        — John Maeda

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

Whenever You meet a person for the first time, say in your head “I know you can read minds"… just in case.

        — Vincent Usher (@ushervince)

“I have never listened to anyone who criticised my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

        — Ray Bradbury

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

        — Anais Nin

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

        — Unknown

“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

        — Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

        — Henrik Ibsen

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

        — Mary Manin Morrissey

“If you don’t like change, you will like irrelevance even less.”

        — Eric Shinseki

“Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.”

        — Pasi Sahlberg #

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

        — Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

        — Hunter S. Thompson

“Be curious, not judgemental.”

        — Walt Whitman

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“Cleaning code does NOT take time. NOT cleaning code does take time.”

        — Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin)

“The best possible company management is one that combines a sense of corporate greatness and destiny, with empathy for, and fidelity to, the average employee.”

        — Bill Hewlett and David Packard

“No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.”

        — Niels Bohr

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

        — Samuel Beckett

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.”

        — Unknown

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t.”

        — Tom Waits

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

        — Leo Tolstoy

“It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.”

        — David Cain

“The difference between a stupid man and a wise one is the stupid man’s inability to calculate the consequences of the action. The same goes for government.”

        — Brian Penton

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

        — Unknown

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”

        — John Cassis

“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”

        — Ring Lardner

“The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”

        — Doug Larson

“The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it’s still on the list!”

        — Unknown

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

        — Horace Mann

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

        — Theodore Roosevelt

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

        — Charles Buxton

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day”

        — Sarah Hepola

“If it ain’t broke, it’s probably a banker.”

        — Dolly (@TheDollSays)

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

        — Clarence Darrow

“In carpentry, you measure twice and cut once. In software development, you never measure and make cuts until you run out of time.”

        — Adam Morse

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

        — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

        — Eugene F. Ware

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick”

        — Mao Tse-Tung

“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

        — Jean Baptiste Colbert

“Moore’s Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.”

        — Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

Sometimes seventeen
syllables ain’t enough to
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“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.”

        — Unknown

“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.”

        — Kurt Vonnegut

“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life.”

        — Catherine Spence

“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.”

        — Unknown

“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

        — Albert Einstein

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”

        — Errol Flynn

“Then what are we fighting for?”

        — Winston Churchill in response to a suggestion of cutting arts funding to support the war effort

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

        — T. S. Eliot

“Some people are like slinkies – not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.”

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

        — Josh Billings

“I mean seriously, aren’t there days when you’d rather open an artery than check your email?”

        — J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski)

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

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

“Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.”

        — Unknown

“There’s a word for a writer who never gives up… published.”

        — Joe Konrath

“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”

        — Marcel Marceau

“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”

        — Oscar Wilde

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

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

“Thinking big generally scares everyone.”

        — Neil Gilmer

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

        — Ellen Parr

“I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.”

        — Bern Williams

“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”

        — Kenyan proverb

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”

        — Benjamin Jowett

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.”

        — Lois Wyse

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

Hip-hop music that is no longer popular should simply be referred to as “hop.”

        — Fake AP Stylebook (@FakeAPStylebook)

“Do not confuse the value of learning something with the actual value of the thing learned.”

        — Ted Nyman (@tnm)

Your success really depends on how loosely you’re willing to define the word “success.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“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

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.”

        — Billy Connolly

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”

        — Mark Twain

“It’s better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.”

        — Unknown

“Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.”

        — Thomas C. Gale

“I have 1,500 Facebook friends, and I don’t know who any of them are.”

        — Unknown #

“Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.”

        — Unknown

“Work like you owe money to a Russian, love like you’ve never looked in the mirror, dance like a drunk badger attacking a hedge.”

        — Dolly (@TheDollSays)

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

        — Laurence Peter

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”

        — Luciano de Crescenzo

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

        — Garth Brooks

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”

        — Paul Boese

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

        — Werner Trobin

“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Programmers don’t burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not ‘shipping’.”

        — Mark Berry

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

        — Mark Twain

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

        — Albert Einstein

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

        — Laurence J. Peter

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road.”

        — Henry Ward Beecher

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin

“All our knowledge transfer was done in person using heavy sarcasm and obscure hand waving.”

        — David Tate, Companies that support remote workers win against those that don’t

“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.”

        — G. M. Weilacher

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

        — George E. Woodberry

“If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.”

        — Alan Cooper

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

        — Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC)

Whenever You meet a person for the first time, say in your head “I know you can read minds"… just in case.

        — Vincent Usher (@ushervince)