“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