“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