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