“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