Friday, November 29, 2024

“People are people through other people.”

        — African Proverb

Thursday, November 28, 2024

“Every day one should at least listen to a little song, read a good poem, look at a fine painting, and, if possible, say a few reasonable words.”

        — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

“I follow a healthy lifestyle, but I rarely catch up with it.”

        — Thin Lines by Randy Glasbergen

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

“In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn’t exists, so let’s not hope for one.”

        — Ze Frank, The Show, 18 Apr 2006

Monday, November 25, 2024

“Out in the bush, the tarred road always ends just after the house of the local mayor.”

        — Australian observation

Friday, November 22, 2024

“A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Thursday, November 21, 2024

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

        — Antoine de Saint ExupĂ©ry

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Monday, November 18, 2024

“The (computer) mouse is probably the narrowest straw you could try and suck all of human expression through.”

        — Joy Mountford

Friday, November 15, 2024

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

Thursday, November 14, 2024

“A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.”

        — Rodney Dangerfield

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

“Everyone around me seems to be taking a break from their mental health to focus on social media.”

        — Deniz Opal

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

“Then what are we fighting for?”

        — Winston Churchill in response to a suggestion of cutting arts funding to support the war effort

Monday, November 11, 2024

“They say if you play that Microsoft CD backward you hear satanic messages. But that’s nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows.”

Friday, November 8, 2024

“I don’t understand how the people of Tunisia overthrew their government without me signing an e-petition or changing my Twitter avatar.”

        — Matt Bailey (@mattb811)

Thursday, November 7, 2024

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

“UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.”

        — Doug Gwyn

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

“‘Need’ is irrelevant here. People do not need phones. They need food, shelter, and running faster than lions.”

        — Thomas Pornin in The DMZ

Monday, November 4, 2024

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”

        — Rich Kulawiec

Friday, November 1, 2024

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen