“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