“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

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

        — Alfred Fripp

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

        — Dave Barry

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

        — Unknown

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

        — J. Petit Senn

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

        — Bob Talbert

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

        — Richard Stevens (@rstevens)

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

        — Unknown

“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

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

        — Oscar Wilde

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

        — Mother Teresa

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

        — Fulton Oursler

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

        — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

        — Anonymous

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)

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

        — Frank A. Clark

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

        — Lewis Smedes

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

        — Louisa May Alcott

“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)

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

        — Clarence Darrow

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

        — Eugene F. Ware

“Never mistake motion for action.”

        — Ernest Hemingway

“I married beneath me - all women do.”

        — Nancy Astor