“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

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        — 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)