“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

        — Albert Einstein

“I know it’s impossible, but can you do it anyway?”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”

        — Epictetus

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

“If you can put an axe through it, it’s hardware; if you want to put an axe through it, it’s software.”

        — Unknown

“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

        — Unknown

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

        — Scott Adams

“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.”

        — Benny Hill

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”

        — Navajo Proverb

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

        — George E. Woodberry

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”

        — Jorge Luis Borges

“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.”

        — Rabindranath Tagore

Haikus are easy,
but sometimes they don’t make sense.
Refrigerator

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you just might miss it.”

        — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.”

        — Soren Kierkegaard

“Sometimes the most unnecessary parts are the most necessary parts.”

        — Caleb

“Never mistake motion for action.”

        — Ernest Hemingway

“I am driven by two main philosophies: know more about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

        — Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I remember when social networking was something that happened in person. How awkward.”

        — Caprice Crane

“All the coffee in Columbia won’t make me a morning person.”

        — Unknown