“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