“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon feed them.”

        — Ian Kiernan

“Outside noisy, inside empty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

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)

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

        — Mark Twain

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

        — Michel de Montaigne

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.”

        — Doug Larson

“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

        — Jean-Michel Basquiat

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

“Remember, good code is like a good joke: It needs no explanation.”

        — Unknown

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

        — Ernest Gaines

“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”

        — Bill Vaughan

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

        — William Penn

“We want structures that serve people, not people serving structures.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“Telling a programmer there’s already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there’s already a song about love.”

        — Pete Cordell

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

        — Howard Scott

“A Platypus is a duck designed by a committee.”

        — Unknown

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.”

        — Joan Rivers

“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.”

        — Horace Greeley

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

        — Plato

“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

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

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”

        — Mark Twain