“Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend.”

        — Unknown

When we “solve” copyright problems at the expense of the Internet, we solve them at the expense of 21st-century society as a whole.

        — Cory Doctorow, It’s Time to Stop Talking About Copyright

“You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

        — Liz Smith

“If the guy next to you is swearing like a wharfie he’s probably a billionaire. Or, just conceivably, a wharfie.”

        — Australian observation

“Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.”

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

“The worst thing to be is successful as someone else.”

        — Jay-Z

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

        — Michel de Montaigne

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

“Stand at the brink of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it anymore, draw back a little, and have a cup of tea.”

        — Sophrony Sakharov

“As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master once you utter it, you are its slave.”

        — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“Critical decisions need to be made as late as possible, but before they make themselves.”

        — Mary Poppendieck, YOW! 2010

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

        — Sandra Carey

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

        — Thomas Jefferson

“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.”

        — Haim Ginott

“Could you make it less literal and more obvious?”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

“Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”

        — Max L. Forman

“Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

        — Warren G. Bennis

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”

        — Erma Bombeck

“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Supidity is the same. And that’s why life is hard.”

        — Jeremy Goldberg

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

“I’m toying with the idea of becoming a useful member of society.”

        — Wally from Dilbert, by Scott Adams