Thursday, December 31, 2020

“There is now ten times as many lines of legal text about BusyBox than there is lines of source code.”

        — Bruce Perens, Linux.conf.au 2012

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

“If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.”

        — Alfred Fripp

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”

        — Dave Barry

Monday, December 28, 2020

“I have never lowered myself to name calling, and I’m not about to start on account of that prat.”

        — Unknown

Friday, December 25, 2020

“It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.”

        — J. Petit Senn

Thursday, December 24, 2020

“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”

        — Bob Talbert

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

“Dogs with thumbs would make you coffee, cats with thumbs would steal your car.”

        — Richard Stevens (@rstevens)

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”

        — Unknown

Monday, December 21, 2020

“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

Friday, December 18, 2020

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Thursday, December 17, 2020

“Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.”

        — Mother Teresa

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”

        — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Monday, December 14, 2020

“People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.”

        — Anonymous

Friday, December 11, 2020

My 4-year old told me how a double-sided pencil can be used even if one end is broken. I told her how to say “fault-tolerant redundancy.”

        — Chris Houser (@chrishouser)

Thursday, December 10, 2020

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

        — Frank A. Clark

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

        — Lewis Smedes

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

        — Louisa May Alcott

Monday, December 7, 2020

“No one plans to fail. They just go online. Then check their e-mail. Then go to twitter… and it just happens organically.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Friday, December 4, 2020

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

        — Clarence Darrow

Thursday, December 3, 2020

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

        — Eugene F. Ware

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

“Never mistake motion for action.”

        — Ernest Hemingway

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

“I married beneath me - all women do.”

        — Nancy Astor

Monday, November 30, 2020

“God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.”

        — Garrison Keillor

Friday, November 27, 2020

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

        — Don Marquis

Thursday, November 26, 2020

“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

        — Peter Drucker

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

        — James Bryant Conant

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

“The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose.”

        — Australian convict saying

Monday, November 23, 2020

“I can picture in my mind a world without war and without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”

        — Jack Handey (@Thinking_Deep)

Friday, November 20, 2020

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, November 19, 2020

“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

“Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”

        — Max L. Forman

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.”

        — Unknown

Monday, November 16, 2020

“The Internet is a marvellous tool for finding solutions to problems I never had prior to the Internet.”

        — Unknown

Friday, November 13, 2020

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”

        — Jorge Luis Borges

Thursday, November 12, 2020

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

        — George Jean Nathan

Monday, November 9, 2020

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

        — Anais Nin

Friday, November 6, 2020

“Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it”

        — Frederick Pohl

Thursday, November 5, 2020

“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.”

        — Sigmund Freud

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

        — Dale Carnegie

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

        — Les Brown

Monday, November 2, 2020

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”

        — E. Joseph Cossman

Friday, October 30, 2020

“Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.”

        — Turkish Proverb

Thursday, October 29, 2020

“Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages”

        — Jacques Deval

Monday, October 26, 2020

“We’re not just just humans anymore. We’re not multiple personalities, we’re many personalities… uh, one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality but that doesn’t make me a multiple personality. I’m looking for a little nuance here.”

        — Alpha, Dollhouse

Friday, October 23, 2020

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

Thursday, October 22, 2020

“To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

        — Elbert Green Hubbard

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

“Joy, I think, is a tougher, gutsier emotion than despair. We’re not going to mope our way to a brighter future or better lives.”

        — Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen)

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

“It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.”

        — David Harris

Monday, October 19, 2020

“I know that you gave us exactly what we asked for, but these are really not what we were hoping for.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

Friday, October 16, 2020

“No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.”

        — D. H. Lawrence

Thursday, October 15, 2020

“It is expecting too much for a politician to be sincerely interested in the free flow of information.”

        — Graham Perkins

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

“A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

“The best possible company management is one that combines a sense of corporate greatness and destiny, with empathy for, and fidelity to, the average employee.”

        — Bill Hewlett and David Packard

Monday, October 12, 2020

“The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it’s more like a tired feeling.”

        — Paula Poundstone

Friday, October 9, 2020

“Silence was never written down.”

        — Italian Proverb

Thursday, October 8, 2020

“Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

        — St Antoine de Exupéry

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

“Writing code a computer can understand is science. Writing code other programmers can understand is an art.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

“The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.”

        — Samuel Johnson

Monday, October 5, 2020

“Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

        — Robert Heinlein

Friday, October 2, 2020

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

Thursday, October 1, 2020

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

        — David Starr Jordan

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

“Winners win and losers have meetings.”

        — Ozzie Guillen

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

“The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Monday, September 28, 2020

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.”

        — Lilly Tomlin

Friday, September 25, 2020

“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.”

        — W. H. Auden

Thursday, September 24, 2020

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

“There’s nothing more noble than a good try.”

        — Gordon Parks

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool”

        — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Monday, September 21, 2020

“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”

        — Mark Twain

Friday, September 18, 2020

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

        — W. Somerset Maugham

Thursday, September 17, 2020

“It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.”

        — Voltaire

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

Monday, September 14, 2020

“If it’s a new problem, perhaps it demands a new approach. If it’s an old problem, it certainly does.”

        — Seth Godin

Friday, September 11, 2020

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Thursday, September 10, 2020

“If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.”

        — Voltaire

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

“Remember, you can do work outside of your paid hours as well.”

        — Clients From Hell

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

        — Sir Winston Churchill

Monday, September 7, 2020

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”

        — Ira Gassen

Friday, September 4, 2020

Hate a liar more than you hate a thief. A thief is only after our salary, a liar is after our reality.

Thursday, September 3, 2020

“Every day one should at least listen to a little song, read a good poem, look at a fine painting, and, if possible, say a few reasonable words.”

        — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”

        — Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.”

        — Horace Greeley

Monday, August 31, 2020

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

        — Mark Twain

Friday, August 28, 2020

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”

        — Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Thursday, August 27, 2020

“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

        — Josh Billings

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

        — Bertha Calloway

Monday, August 24, 2020

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

        — Carl Jung

Friday, August 21, 2020

“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”

        — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Thursday, August 20, 2020

“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”

        — Robert Byrne

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

“The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9.”

        — Werner Trobin

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

“In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.”

        — Jeff Bezos

Monday, August 17, 2020

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

Friday, August 14, 2020

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, August 13, 2020

“Failure is an event, never a person.”

        — William D. Brown

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”

        — Rich Kulawiec

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

        — John Cage

Monday, August 10, 2020

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

Friday, August 7, 2020

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

        — Vivian Greene

Thursday, August 6, 2020

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

        — Arthur Miller

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.”

        — John LeCarre

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

“Hatred is one long wait.”

        — René Maran

Monday, August 3, 2020

“We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?”

        — Dorothe Deluzy

Friday, July 31, 2020

“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

Thursday, July 30, 2020

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

        — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

        — Upton Sinclair

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

        — Albert Einstein

Monday, July 27, 2020

“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”

        — Paul Eldridge

Friday, July 24, 2020

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”

        — James Freeman Clarke

Thursday, July 23, 2020

“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

Monday, July 20, 2020

“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

        — Katharine Brush

Friday, July 17, 2020

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

Thursday, July 16, 2020

“Often we don’t really need advice or guidance from each other. Sometimes we just need a friend to deposit courage into our soul.”

        — Mike Foster

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

        — Robert Anthony

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

Monday, July 13, 2020

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

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

Friday, July 10, 2020

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

        — Carrie Fisher

Thursday, July 9, 2020

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”

        — Raymond Hull

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

        — Sydney Smith

Monday, July 6, 2020

“Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.”

        — Will Smith

Friday, July 3, 2020

“To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

        — E. E. Cummings

Thursday, July 2, 2020

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

“Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.”

        — Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi)

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

        — Mary Manin Morrissey

Monday, June 29, 2020

“Don’t judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

        — Unknown

Friday, June 26, 2020

“You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, June 25, 2020

“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.”

        — G. M. Weilacher

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”

        — Louis D. Brandeis

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

“People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it’s one or the other.”

        — Caprice Crane

Monday, June 22, 2020

“A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road.”

        — Henry Ward Beecher

Friday, June 19, 2020

“It’s so useless but it’s awesome!”

        — Benjamin Humphrey (@humphreybc), Linux.conf.au 2012

Thursday, June 18, 2020

“Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.”

        — Laurence J. Peter

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”

        — Dave Barry

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

“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

Monday, June 15, 2020

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.”

        — John Churton Collins

Friday, June 12, 2020

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

        — Nelson Mandela

Thursday, June 11, 2020

“There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.”

        — Roger H. Lincoln

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

        — Derek Bok

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

“Take from the altars of the past the fire – not the ashes.”

        — Jean Jaures

Monday, June 8, 2020

“The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.”

        — Germain G. Glien

Friday, June 5, 2020

“Change is inevitable. Unless you need it to feed the parking meter. Then it’s nowhere to be found.”

        — Caprice Crane

Thursday, June 4, 2020

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

“The man who never reads lives only once.”

        — George R. R. Martin

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

        — Sydney J. Harris

Monday, June 1, 2020

“Interpretive dance, when it succeeds, is still a failure.”

        — Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010

Friday, May 29, 2020

“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.”

        — Russian Proverb

Thursday, May 28, 2020

“Thoughtful and productive communities make us as a species better."

        — Jono Bacon #lca2016

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

“Ever since I discovered Twitter, I’ve been trying to stop using it.”

        — Giles Bowkett

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace”

        — Robert J. Sawyer

Monday, May 25, 2020

“Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

        — Albert Camus

Friday, May 22, 2020

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”

        — Spanish Proverb

Thursday, May 21, 2020

“I remember when social networking was something that happened in person. How awkward.”

        — Caprice Crane

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

        — Albert Einstein

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.”

        — Billy Connolly

Monday, May 18, 2020

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

        — W. M. Lewis

Friday, May 15, 2020

“I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.”

        — Mark Twain

Thursday, May 14, 2020

“Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.”

        — Grey Livingston

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

        — Ruth St. Denis

Monday, May 11, 2020

“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.”

        — Mana (@damana)

Friday, May 8, 2020

“The more laws the more offenders.”

        — Thomas Fuller

Thursday, May 7, 2020

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

“You only have to succeed the last time.”

        — Brian Tracy

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

“We have a fun game my wife and I play during lock-down. It’s called, ‘Why do you do it that way?’ There are no winners.”

        — Unknown #QuarantineQuotes

Monday, May 4, 2020

“My shoes probably think I died.”

        — Bαѕєм|باسم #QuarantineQuotes

Friday, May 1, 2020

“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.”

        — Millard Fuller

Thursday, April 30, 2020

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

        — Douglas MacArthur

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”

        — Jerry Rice

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

“Eagles may soar high, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”

        — John Benfield

Monday, April 27, 2020

“Fortunately excitement is one of the contagious things children carry.”

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)

Friday, April 24, 2020

“I follow a healthy lifestyle, but I rarely catch up with it.”

        — Thin Lines by Randy Glasbergen

Thursday, April 23, 2020

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

“I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.”

        — Richard Steele

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

“I’m sorry but if you’re still using an AOL email address, I just can’t take you seriously.”

        — @HAL9000_

Monday, April 20, 2020

“Leadership is action, not position.”

        — Donald H. McGannon

Friday, April 17, 2020

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

Thursday, April 16, 2020

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

        — James Branch Cabell

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

Monday, April 13, 2020

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

Friday, April 10, 2020

“Don’t anthropomorphise computers. They hate it.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, April 9, 2020

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

        — Marshall McLuhan

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

“Exercise machines are just torture devices with better marketing campaigns.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

“Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.”

        — American Proverb

Monday, April 6, 2020

“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”

Friday, April 3, 2020

“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”

        — Doug Gwyn

Thursday, April 2, 2020

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t.”

        — Tom Waits

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

“I am in favour of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands - after all, one must start somewhere.”

        — Sacha Guitry

Monday, March 30, 2020

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

        — Arthur Miller

Friday, March 27, 2020

“No matter how big and bad you are, when a two year old hands you a toy phone, you answer it.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, March 26, 2020

“Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.”

        — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

        — John F. Kennedy, 1962

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

“Often we don’t really need advice or guidance from each other. Sometimes we just need a friend to deposit courage into our soul.”

        — Mike Foster

Monday, March 23, 2020

“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”

        — Archibald MacLeish

Friday, March 20, 2020

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”

        — Henry C. Link

Thursday, March 19, 2020

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

        — Sydney Smith

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life.”

        — Catherine Spence

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

        — Michael Leunig

Monday, March 16, 2020

“Writing code a computer can understand is science. Writing code other programmers can understand is an art.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

Friday, March 13, 2020

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

        — H. L. Mencken

Thursday, March 12, 2020

“The heart is the first feature of working minds.”

        — Frank Lloyd Wright

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

“At some point the entire universe will become a black, cold, lifeless void. So pass me my damned coffee.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.”

        — Richard Hamming

Monday, March 9, 2020

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week”

        — Spanish Proverb

Friday, March 6, 2020

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realise what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”

        — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

Thursday, March 5, 2020

“Too much software productivity is measured by how far the bullet is from the gun, rather than how close it is to the target.”

        — Richard Dalton (@richardadalton)

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

“Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.”

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”

        — William Safire

Monday, March 2, 2020

“If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.”

        — Eli Siegel

Friday, February 28, 2020

“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

        — Will Rogers

Thursday, February 27, 2020

“I guess cows aren’t into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.”

        — Anthony Clark

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

“The Internet is a marvellous tool for finding solutions to problems I never had prior to the Internet.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

        — Anais Nin

Monday, February 24, 2020

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”

        — Archibald McLeish

Friday, February 21, 2020

“If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, ‘Help, they’ve turned me into a parrot’, you are wasting everybody’s time.”

Thursday, February 20, 2020

“My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

        — Jack London

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

        — Henri Louis Bergson

Monday, February 17, 2020

“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves what he gets.”

        — Neil Gaiman

Friday, February 14, 2020

“A Platypus is a duck designed by a committee.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, February 13, 2020

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

        — Ray Bradbury

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, February 10, 2020

“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson

Friday, February 7, 2020

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”

        — Shelby Foote

Thursday, February 6, 2020

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

“Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

        — Beverley Nichols

Monday, February 3, 2020

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”

        — Isaac Asimov

Friday, January 31, 2020

“If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, January 30, 2020

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

        — John Locke

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

“I used to think I wasn’t a morning person, but things never got better after lunch.”

        — Wally from Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

“Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

        — Edward Abbey

Monday, January 27, 2020

“Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.”

        — Unknown

Friday, January 24, 2020

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

        — John Cage

Thursday, January 23, 2020

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

“One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy.”

        — Eric Evans

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

Monday, January 20, 2020

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”

        — Mark Twain

Friday, January 17, 2020

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

        — William Somerset Maugham

Thursday, January 16, 2020

“Moore’s Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.”

        — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

        — Albert Einstein

Monday, January 13, 2020

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

        — Will Rogers

Friday, January 10, 2020

“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”

        — Ann Landers

Thursday, January 9, 2020

“War does not determine who is right, only who is left.”

        — Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

        — Francis Bacon

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

“Out in the bush, the tarred road always ends just after the house of the local mayor.”

        — Australian observation

Monday, January 6, 2020

Whenever my friends suggest going to a vegan restaurant, my first thought is, “what will I eat afterwards?”

        — David Siegel (@dvdsgl)

Friday, January 3, 2020

“Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

        — David Letterman

Thursday, January 2, 2020

“Home is where you hang your @.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

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

        — Scott McKay