“Depression means you cannot enjoy cats on the Internet.”

        — Paul Fenwick (watch @pjf’s five minute talk on YouTube)

My personal pet peeve is how many people think the hard part is in the “big and hard problems” or in some fluffy but important-sounding thing like “innovation”. In fact, all the real work is in getting the details right. It’s that “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” thing. People seem to think that inspiration is the much bigger and important part of the two, but I’ve come to believe that while it’s important to have inspiration, where people actually stumble is when they can’t execute on that inspiration. Inspiration isn’t that rare in the end, but people who have it and then actually follow through… that’s rare.

        — Linus Torvalds

“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

        — Banksy

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

        — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

        — Jason Love

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

        — Satchel Paige

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

        — Winston Churchill