“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