“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

        — Milton Berle

“Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun.”

        — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon

“Laughter is a part of the human survival kit.”

        — David Nathan

“Work like you owe money to a Russian, love like you’ve never looked in the mirror, dance like a drunk badger attacking a hedge.”

        — Dolly (@TheDollSays)

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

        — Woody Allen

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

        — Russian Proverb

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”

        — Saint Francis of Assisi

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

        — John Cage

“If you trip over a pun in your speaking it’s not so bad but to intentionally jump on one is a true offence.”

        — Graycie Harmon

“He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.”

        — Turkish Proverb

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

        — Tallulah Bankhead

“Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.”

        — William Safire

If you ever code something that “feels like a hack but it works,” just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking.

        — Ben Driscoll (@daisyowl)

“If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be human. You’d be a game-show host.”

        — Heathers

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.”

        — Edward O. Wilson, sociobiologist

“I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“One accurate measurement is worth more than a thousand expert opinions.”

        — Grace Hopper

“If you are using PowerPoint to even 25% of its potential, your presentation will probably suck.”

        — Karl Seguin, Goodbye Microsoft Office

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

        — Anne Lamott