“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

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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)