Wednesday, May 31, 2023

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

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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

        — Don Herrold

Monday, May 29, 2023

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

        — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Friday, May 26, 2023

“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

Thursday, May 25, 2023

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

        — John Quinton

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

“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

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

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

        — Russian Proverb

Monday, May 22, 2023

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

        — Confucius

Friday, May 19, 2023

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

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

Thursday, May 18, 2023

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

        — Proverb

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

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

        — Peter Drucker

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

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

        — Adlai E. Stevenson

Monday, May 15, 2023

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

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

Friday, May 12, 2023

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

        — Mark Twain

Thursday, May 11, 2023

“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

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Debt, n.

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

        — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

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

        — Anonymous

Monday, May 8, 2023

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

        — Robert Zend

Friday, May 5, 2023

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

        — Will Rogers

Thursday, May 4, 2023

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

        — Fred Brooks

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

“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

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

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

        — Mark Epstein

Monday, May 1, 2023

“Hatred is one long wait.”

        — RenĂ© Maran