“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