“All our knowledge transfer was done in person using heavy sarcasm and obscure hand waving.”

        — David Tate, Companies that support remote workers win against those that don’t #

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) #

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

        — Japanese Proverb

“Visual programming is like trying to get to the moon by climbing a tree. You make a lot of good early progress, at first, but pretty soon you have to go back to your funding agency and ask for a bigger tree.”

        — Unknown

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — Edward Phelps

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

        — Martin Heidegger

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

        — Eugene F. Ware

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.”

        — John Churton Collins

“Do not confuse the value of learning something with the actual value of the thing learned.”

        — Ted Nyman (@tnm) #

“If nothing changed, there’d be no butterflies.”

        — Unknown

“It’s better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.”

        — Unknown

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.”

        — Charles Dickens

“It’s hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott and Costello world.”

        — Unknown

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”

        — James Freeman Clarke

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when looked at in the right way, did not become more complicated.”

        — Poul Anderson

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

        — Winston Churchill

“Don’t be sad because its over. Smile because it happened.”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

“Organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance #

“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”

        — Mark Twain

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

        — Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician & philosopher

“The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.”

        — Germain G. Glien

“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”

        — Archibald MacLeish

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”

        — E. Joseph Cossman

“Good design is clear thinking made visible. Bad design is stupidity made visible.”

        — Edward Tufte

“A man chases a woman until she catches him.”

        — American Proverb

“The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging.”

        — Unknown

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

        — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.”

        — Unknown

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

        — Frederick Douglass

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

        — Maya Angelou

“You just have to make the transition from weird to eccentric and then you’re okay.”

        — John Elder Robinson

“Everyone has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a totally separate production environment.”

“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.”

        — Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, Doctor Who

“Existential threats don’t scare us. We’re librarians.”

        — Bethany Nowviskie #

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

        — Jane Goodall

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

“A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.”

        — The Knights of Pythagoras

“We have a fun game my wife and I play during lock-down. It’s called, ‘Why do you do it that way?’ There are no winners.”

        — Unknown #QuarantineQuotes

“Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus.”

        — Jessica Hagy #

“This crash always occured with the Skype toolbar, speaking of malware.”

        — Firefox Developer, Linux.conf.au 2012

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

        — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

        — Robert Heinlein

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

        — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III Scene I

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

        — Bertha Calloway

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

        — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Rewriting is an opportunity to find new ways of coding old bugs, as well as exciting new bugs.”

        — Unknown

“Be the first person to not do something that no one else has ever thought of not doing before.”

        — Brian Eno

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 #

“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”

        — Po Bronson

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

        — Tom Clancy

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”

        — Lady Bird Johnson

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

        — Aristotle

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and informed just to be undecided about them.”

        — Laurence J. Peter

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

        — Benny Hill

“Take from the altars of the past the fire – not the ashes.”

        — Jean Jaures

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.”

        — Unknown

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

        — Euripides

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

        — Unknown

“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”

        — Mark Twain

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”

        — Satchel Paige

“When there was only one set of footprints in the sand, that was when I bailed because you wouldn’t stop talking about your gluten allergy.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane) #

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

        — Edmund Burke

“Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

        — Beverley Nichols

“Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”

        — Robert C. Savage

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”

        — Benjamin Jowett

Whoever is under-represented in your life will be over-represented in your imagination.

        — Mónica Guzmá

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

“So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.”

        — Jason Love

“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.”

        — Kurt Vonnegut

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”

        — Dave Barry

“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.”

        — Jonatan Mårtensson

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

        — Grace Hopper

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

        — Will Rogers

“The Internet is a marvellous tool for finding solutions to problems I never had prior to the Internet.”

        — Unknown

“If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, ‘Help, they’ve turned me into a parrot’, you are wasting everybody’s time.”

“God is good, but never dance in a small boat.”

        — Irish Saying

“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.”

        — Richard Hamming

“Corporate policy is the great leveller, allows the gibbering idiot not to think and drives the intelligent to gibbering idiocy.”

        — Adam Donnison

“It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

“Some people are like slinkies – not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.”

“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.”

        — David Gelernter

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

        — Haim Ginott

“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”

        — Ann Landers

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

“We’re not just just humans anymore. We’re not multiple personalities, we’re many personalities… uh, one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality but that doesn’t make me a multiple personality. I’m looking for a little nuance here.”

        — Alpha, Dollhouse

“It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.”

        — Millard Fuller

“Silence was never written down.”

        — Italian Proverb

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”

        — William Shakespeare

“Forever is composed of nows.”

        — Emily Dickinson

“The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”

        — Doug Larson

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

        — James Oppenheim

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”

        — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

“Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.”

        — Lao Tzu

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

“My mind is like my internet browser. Nineteen tabs are open, three of them are frozen, and I have no idea where the music is coming from.”

        — Unknown

“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”

        — Peter Drucker

“This is everything we asked for but not what we wanted.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell #

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

        — H. L. Mencken

“Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

        — Aaron Sorkin #

“Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

        — Edward Abbey

“A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.”

        — The Knights of Pythagoras

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

        — J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

        — Mark Russell

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.”

        — William Faulkner

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”

        — Mario Andretti

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

        — H. L. Mencken

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

“The ABC’s of Life: Accept differences; Be kind; Clear your browser history.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane) #

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”

        — Unknown

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

“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 Exupéry

“Happiness is not a reward – it’s a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it’s a result.”

        — Robert Ingersoll

“The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

        — Josephine Hart, Damage

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

        — Australian observation

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.”

        — Unknown

“No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.”

        — D. H. Lawrence

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

“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

“Young people need models, not critics.”

        — John Wooden

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

        — Rita Mae Brown

“People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.”

        — Unknown

“Existential threats don’t scare us. We’re librarians.”

        — Bethany Nowviskie #

“It’s hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott and Costello world.”

        — Unknown

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

        — Mae West

“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life.”

        — Catherine Spence

“It’s better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.”

        — Unknown

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

“The problem with Test-Driven Development is that you have to think about what you want the code to do before you write it. And that ruins the surprise.”

        — Jason Gorman

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

        — Mark Twain

“Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.”

        — Zen Proverb

“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

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”

        — Neil Gaiman

“Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.”

        — Thomas C. Gale

“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson

“The difference between a stupid man and a wise one is the stupid man’s inability to calculate the consequences of the action. The same goes for government.”

        — Brian Penton

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”

        — Frank Scully

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

        — John F. Kennedy, 1962

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

        — Winston Churchill

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

        — Russian Proverb

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.”

        — Anthony D’Angelo

“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late”

        — Seymour Cray

“I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.”

        — Unknown

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

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

        — Sigmund Freud

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

“Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”

        — Alfred E. Neuman

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.”

        — Lois Wyse

We have not succeeded in answering all your problems.

The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions.

In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

        — Unknown

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.”

        — Arthur C. Clarke

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

        — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.”

        — Lao Tzu

“Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.”

        — Unknown

Whenever my friends suggest going to a vegan restaurant, my first thought is, “what will I eat afterwards?”

        — David Siegel (@dvdsgl)

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”

        — Samuel Butler

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

        — Danny Kaye

“No matter what it is I’m doing, there’s always about an 85% chance I’m supposed to be doing something else.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“Being a creator of software systems is like being a god. Only without the omnipotence, omnipresence or omniscience.”

        — Brent Snook (@brentsnook)

“Money may talk, but chocolate sings.”

        — Unknown

“A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.”

“Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

        — David Letterman

“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

The phrase, “Don’t take this the wrong way,” has a zero percent success rate.

        — Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan)

“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.”

        — Robert Zend

“Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”

        — Unknown

“My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.”

        — Ashleigh Brilliant

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

        — Ruth St. Denis

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

        — Thin Lines by Randy Glasbergen

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

“Sometimes when you trade tradition for progress you wind up with neither. This isn’t one of those occasions but still, it’s a catchy saying.”

        — In Plain Sight

“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.”

“Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.”

        — Douglas Adams

“You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Max L. Forman

“The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.”

        — William E. Simon

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”

        — Lady Bird Johnson

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

        — Ellen Parr

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

        — Frederick Douglass

“I guess cows aren’t into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.”

        — Anthony Clark

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

        — Jim Rohn

“I haven’t broken it, I just increased it’s need for maintenance.”

        — James Hoffmann

“Writing code a computer can understand is science. Writing code other programmers can understand is an art.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

“No matter what amazing things you accomplish or how fantastic you are, a cat will always think it is better than you.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Warren G. Bennis

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

        — Sir Winston Churchill

Debt, n.

An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.

        — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

“Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.”

        — Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

        — Sophia Loren

“It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren’t so handy in the refrigerator.”

        — Hugh Allen

“We have two lives, and the second one begins when we realise we only have one.”

        — Confucius

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

        — Pablo Casals

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

        — Sam Keen

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

        — Samuel Beckett

“I am having an out of money experience.”

        — Unknown

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be.”

        — Duncan Trussell

“The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton

“I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.”

        — Charles M. Schulz

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

        — Franklin P. Jones

“Well done is better than well said.”

        — Benjamin Franklin

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

        — Sam Rayburn

“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”

        — Herbert Hoover

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

“I was married by a judge – I should have asked for a jury.”

        — Groucho Marx

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”

        — Erica Jong

“Don’t be sad because its over. Smile because it happened.”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.”

        — The Knights of Pythagoras

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

        — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”

        — Lynda Barry

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving words in evidence of the fact.”

        — George Elliot

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.”

        — Lilly Tomlin

“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

“Adulthood is like the vet, and we’re all the dogs that were excited for the car ride until we realized where we’re going.”

        — Stephanie McMaster (@Smethanie)

Whenever my friends suggest going to a vegan restaurant, my first thought is, “what will I eat afterwards?”

        — David Siegel (@dvdsgl)