“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