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

        — Turkish Proverb

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

        — Unknown

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

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

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

        — Jacques Deval

“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

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

        — Jack Lang

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

        — Elbert Green Hubbard

“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)

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

        — David Harris

“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

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

        — D. H. Lawrence

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

        — Graham Perkins

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

        — Oscar Wilde

“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

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

        — Paula Poundstone

“Silence was never written down.”

        — Italian Proverb

“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

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

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

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

        — Samuel Johnson

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

        — Robert Heinlein

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

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

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

        — David Starr Jordan