“Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.”

        — Unknown

“Americans will always reach for their lawyers first.”

        — Neil Brennan, Ignite Melbourne 2010

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it necessary? Is it true? Does it improve upon the silence?”

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

“C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.”

        — Scott McKay

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.”

        — James Branch Cabell

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

        — Milton Berle

“Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

“I think of optimism as a brave choice rather than an ignorant position.”

        — Unknown

“This crash always occured with the Skype toolbar, speaking of malware.”

        — Firefox Developer, Linux.conf.au 2012

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

        — Winston Churchill

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

        — Woodrow Wilson

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you.”

        — Robert Fulghum

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

        — Pablo Casals

“No matter what it is I’m doing, there’s always about an 85% chance I’m supposed to be doing something else.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

        — Aristotle

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”

        — William Shakespeare

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham