“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

        — Milton Berle

“The two best weapons for fighting off the demons of fear: laughter and math. I’m lousy at math.”

        — Jake Adelstein (@jakeadelstein) #

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

        — Charles M. Schulz

“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