The phrase, “Don’t take this the wrong way,” has a zero percent success rate.

        — Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan)

“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)

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.”

        — Unknown

“Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.”

        — Douglas Adams

“I think it’s adorable when people assume I’m interested in anything they have to say before I’ve had my coffee.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“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

“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

“Gaze not into the abyss, lest you become recognized as an abyss domain expert, and they expect you keep gazing into the damn thing.”

        — Nick Mathewson

“Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.”

        — George Santayana

“A nice thing about being single is when you’re setting the silverware it doesn’t matter which side you put the remote on.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

        — Maya Angelou

“For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet.”

        — Randall Munroe

“Don’t judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

        — Unknown

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

        — Winston Churchill

“A library is thought in cold storage.”

        — Herbert Samuel

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

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

        — Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC)

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

        — Unknown

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

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

        — The Knights of Pythagoras

“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.”

        — Tom Robbins

“Silence was never written down.”

        — Italian Proverb

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

        — Unknown

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct 1952

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

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”

        — Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

        — Eugene F. Ware

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

        — George Jean Nathan

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

        — Winston Churchill

“Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

        — Agnes Allen

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)

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

        — Erin Major

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

        — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

        — Unknown

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”

        — Neil Gaiman

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

        — Benjamin Jowett

“Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.”

        — Gerald Lieberman

“I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.”

        — Mark Twain

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

        — George E. Woodberry

“You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”

        — Irish Proverb

“A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

        — George Santayana

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.”

        — Charles Dickens

“Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”

        — Wilson Mizner

If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”

        — Epictetus

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

        — Fred Brooks

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”

        — Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.”

        — Mana (@damana)

“My mind is like my internet browser. Nineteen tabs are open, three of them are frozen, and I have no idea where the music is coming from.”

        — Unknown

“You only have to succeed the last time.”

        — Brian Tracy

“No matter what it is I’m doing, there’s always about an 85% chance I’m supposed to be doing something else.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbour is a spiritual one.”

        — Nikolai Bardlyaev

“Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning ‘lousy hunter.’”

        — Andy Rooney

“The ABC’s of Life: Accept differences; Be kind; Clear your browser history.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.”

        — Joan Rivers

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”

        — Peter Drucker

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

        — Carl Bard

“If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Wally from Dilbert by Scott Adams

“Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.”

        — Evan Edgar

“They say a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Why the truth is pantsless, no one mentions.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

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

        — Errol Flynn

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

“He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.”

        — Turkish Proverb

“A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in comments.”

        — Kevlin Henney

“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”

        — Unknown

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

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

        — David Nathan

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

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

“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

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”

        — Reba McEntire

“So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.”

        — Jason Love

“I’ve been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.”

        — Lee Grant

“Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works.”

        — Michael Hartung

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

        — John Barrymore

“But considering that the ancient Greeks created democracy and civilisation, you would think they would have created copyright law if they had wanted to.”

        — Lloyd Kaufman #

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

        — Mark Knopfler

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

“Young people need models, not critics.”

        — John Wooden

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

        — Howard Aiken

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

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

        — Lewis Smedes

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

        — John Maeda

“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.”

        — Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, Doctor Who

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

        — Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”

        — Cinderella by Oscar Hammerstein II

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

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

        — Joe Konrath

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

        — Pasi Sahlberg #

“Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.”

        — George Santayana

“Depression means you cannot enjoy cats on the Internet.”

        — Paul Fenwick (watch @pjf’s five minute talk on YouTube)

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

        — John Dewey

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.”

        — William Faulkner

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”

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

/* Sometimes I believe the compiler ignores all my comments. */

        — Unknown Programmer

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

        — Mickey Rooney

“Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that’s welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.”

        — Jonathan Edward Durham

“Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.”

        — Washington Irving

“To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

        — E. E. Cummings

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

        — Albert Einstein

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

        — Michel de Montaige

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

        — Leo Buscaglia

“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”

        — Archibald MacLeish

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

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

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

It amazes me that the same people that consider “developers” fungible are upset when the resources consider them equally exchangeable.

        — Torbjörn Gyllebring (@drunkcod)

“Thinking big generally scares everyone.”

        — Neil Gilmer

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

        — Kahlil Gibran

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

        — Unknown

“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”

        — Howard Mumford Jones

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

        — Joseph Conrad

“Often we don’t really need advice or guidance from each other. Sometimes we just need a friend to deposit courage into our soul.”

        — Mike Foster

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

My personal pet peeve is how many people think the hard part is in the “big and hard problems” or in some fluffy but important-sounding thing like “innovation”. In fact, all the real work is in getting the details right. It’s that “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” thing. People seem to think that inspiration is the much bigger and important part of the two, but I’ve come to believe that while it’s important to have inspiration, where people actually stumble is when they can’t execute on that inspiration. Inspiration isn’t that rare in the end, but people who have it and then actually follow through… that’s rare.

        — Linus Torvalds

Whoever is under-represented in your life will be over-represented in your imagination.

        — Mónica Guzmá

“One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.”

        — Charles P. Issawi

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

        — Larry Hardiman

“God is good, but never dance in a small boat.”

        — Irish Saying

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

        — Pablo Casals

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.”

        — Kathryn Carpenter

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

        — Catherine Spence

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

        — Mary Manin Morrissey

“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet.”

        — Unknown

“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”

        — Samuel Butler

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.”

        — Unknown

“Critical decisions need to be made as late as possible, but before they make themselves.”

        — Mary Poppendieck, YOW! 2010

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

        — Plato

“The ABC’s of Life: Accept differences; Be kind; Clear your browser history.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

“No matter how big and bad you are, when a two year old hands you a toy phone, you answer it.”

        — Unknown

How can we call ourselves “evolved” when signs are needed to remind people to wash their hands after they go to the bathroom?

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”

        — Marcel Marceau

“Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.”

        — Mark van Doren

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”

        — Richard Buckminster Fuller

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”

        — Robert Graves

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”

        — Unknown

“Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.”

        — Evan Edgar

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”

        — Max L. Forman

“We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.”

        — Proverb

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

        — Mark Twain

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”

        — Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

“A library is thought in cold storage.”

        — Herbert Samuel

“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves what he gets.”

        — Neil Gaiman

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

        — Unknown

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

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

        — Don Herrold

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

        — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose.”

        — Australian convict saying

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”

        — John Quinton

“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

“No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.”

        — Russian Proverb

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

        — Confucius

“There are only two kinds of [programming] languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

“A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives.”

        — Proverb

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”

        — Peter Drucker

“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”

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

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

        — Mark Twain

“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

Debt, n.

An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.

        — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

“Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.”

        — Anonymous

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

        — Robert Zend

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

        — Will Rogers

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

        — Fred Brooks

“We’re not just just humans anymore. We’re not multiple personalities, we’re many personalities… uh, one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality but that doesn’t make me a multiple personality. I’m looking for a little nuance here.”

        — Alpha, Dollhouse

“Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.”

        — Mark Epstein

“Hatred is one long wait.”

        — René Maran

“I guess cows aren’t into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.”

        — Anthony Clark

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

        — Michel de Montaige

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

        — Charles Buxton

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

        — Oscar Wilde

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Unknown

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

        — Anthony D’Angelo

“This crash always occured with the Skype toolbar, speaking of malware.”

        — Firefox Developer, Linux.conf.au 2012

“Good design is clear thinking made visible. Bad design is stupidity made visible.”

        — Edward Tufte

“When it comes to making a big change in your life, you have to want it more than you fear it.”

        — Unknown

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“No matter what it is I’m doing, there’s always about an 85% chance I’m supposed to be doing something else.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

        — John F. Kennedy, 1962

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

        — David Cain

“I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.”

        — Jane Wagner

“The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.”

        — William E. Simon

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

        — William Shakespeare

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

        — Mary Manin Morrissey

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

“If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait till you hire an amateur.”

        — Red Adair

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“…and on the 3rd day God finished creating the Earth, and it looked fantastic and worked really well. And then he checked it in IE…”

        — Simon (@intruth)

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.”

        — Unknown

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

        — John Maeda

“Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalising animal.”

        — Robert A. Heinlein

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

        — Colin Powell

“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers ‘users’”

        — Edward Tufte

“C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.”

        — Scott McKay

“I don’t wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.”

        — Woody Allen

“Yesterday. All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.”

        — Ben Simo (@QualityFrog)

“The iPhone may be a fascist regime, but the trains run on time and the streets are very well maintained.”

        — Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror)

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once the last developer is locked up and the last idea patented you will realise that lawyers can’t program.”

        — Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

        — Maya Angelou

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

        — Pasi Sahlberg #

“There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”

        — Ursula K. Le Guin

Whoever is under-represented in your life will be over-represented in your imagination.

        — Mónica Guzmá

“If at first you don’t succeed, that’s one data point.”

        — xkcd by Randall Munroe

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

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

        — G. M. Weilacher

“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.”

        — C. A. R. Hoare

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

        — John Ruskin

“Failure is an event, never a person.”

        — William D. Brown

“My project is 90% done. I hope the second half goes as well.”

        — Scott W. Ambler (@scottwambler

“The bigger the hat, the smaller the property.”

        — Australian Proverb

“If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.”

        — Unknown

“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.”

        — Mana (@damana)

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.”

        — Unknown

“A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

        — George Santayana

“God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.”

        — Garrison Keillor

“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”

        — Bill Vaughan

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

        — Lane Olinghouse

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead

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

        — H. L. Mencken

“You’re making this too complicated when it’s really quite simple. All you have to do is make the software completely configurable so it can do whatever I need it to.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

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

        — Unknown

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

        — Laurence J. Peter

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

        — Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

        — Derek Bok

“The ABC’s of Life: Accept differences; Be kind; Clear your browser history.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’”

        — Eve Merriam

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it necessary? Is it true? Does it improve upon the silence?”

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

“You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

        — Ann Lamott

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

        — Richard Bach

“Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

        — St Antoine de Exupéry

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”

        — E. Joseph Cossman

“Gaze not into the abyss, lest you become recognized as an abyss domain expert, and they expect you keep gazing into the damn thing.”

        — Nick Mathewson

“Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.”

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

        — Ruth St. Denis

“They make it look so easy. Connecting with another human being. It’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world.”

        — Dexter, “The Big One”

“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.”

        — Haim Ginott

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

        — Samuel Johnson

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

        — Albert Einstein

“They say if you play that Microsoft CD backward you hear satanic messages. But that’s nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows.”

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

        — Dolly (@TheDollSays)

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

        — Irish Blessing

“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

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

        — Luciano de Crescenzo

“You only have to succeed the last time.”

        — Brian Tracy

“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”

        — Oscar Levant

“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

“Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun.”

        — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct 1952

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

        — Laurence Peter