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

        — George S. Patton

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

        — John Locke

“Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.”

        — African Proverb

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.”

        — Edward O. Wilson, sociobiologist

Rest in peace, Mr Wilson.

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

        — Frederick Pohl

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.”

        — Peter Williams

“If at first you don’t succeed, that’s one data point.”

        — xkcd by Randall Munroe

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

        — Abraham Lincoln

“Adulthood is like the vet, and we’re all the dogs that were excited for the car ride until we realized where we’re going.”

        — Stephanie McMaster (@Smethanie)

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

        — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

        — Paula Poundstone

“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility”

        — Newton Minow

“The only things that are certain in life are death and taxes and my murderous rage if you don’t order your own fries and keep eating mine.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“Reality shows are great because they let you watch dysfunctional people without an annoying mirror.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“A company that focuses solely on profits ultimately betrays both itself and society.”

        — Bill Hewlett and David Packard

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

        — Clarence Darrow

“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.”

        — C. A. R. Hoare

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

        — Woody Allen

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

        — Unknown

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”

        — William Feather

“My shoes probably think I died.”

        — Bαѕєм|باسم #QuarantineQuotes

“The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”

        — Doug Larson

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

        — Anne Frank

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — Edward Phelps

“People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.”

        — Unknown

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Anais Nin

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

That’s why it was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards — not “not doing magic” because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn’t. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.

        — Terry Pratchett

“When it comes to making a big change in your life, you have to want it more than you fear it.”

        — Unknown

“HTTP is the dial tone of the web.”

        — Chris Tucker

“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.”

        — Paul Fix

“When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Hip-hop music that is no longer popular should simply be referred to as “hop.”

        — Fake AP Stylebook (@FakeAPStylebook)

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

        — Louis D. Brandeis

“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

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

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.”

        — Kathryn Carpenter

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

        — Mark Twain

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

        — Mark Twain

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

        — Francis Bacon

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

        — William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.”

        — Yiddish Proverb

“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

“Programming close to the hardware is bare metal. Programming close to javascript is bare stupid.”

        — Eamon Brosnan

“Forever is composed of nows.”

        — Emily Dickinson

“If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait till you hire an amateur.”

        — Red Adair

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

        — Henry Ford

“Twitter: It’s like release early, release often for thinking.”

        — Glyn Moody (Linux.conf.au 2010 keynote)

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

        — Shelby Foote

“Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.”

        — Mark Epstein

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

        — Laurence J. Peter

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

        — Carrie Fisher

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

        — Andre Gide

When we “solve” copyright problems at the expense of the Internet, we solve them at the expense of 21st-century society as a whole.

        — Cory Doctorow, It’s Time to Stop Talking About Copyright

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

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

        — Plato

“Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.”

        — Lao Tzu

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

        — Roger Miller

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

        — Caprice Crane

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

        — Paul Eldridge

“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Graham Perkins

“Outside noisy, inside empty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

        — Hofstadter’s Law

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

        — Gordon Parks

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

        — Nelson Mandela

“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.”

        — Flash Rosenberg

“There are only two kinds of [programming] languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

“Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.”

        — Unknown

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when looked at in the right way, did not become more complicated.”

        — Poul Anderson

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Don’t be sad because its over. Smile because it happened.”

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

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

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

“By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

        — Socrates

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

        — John LeCarre

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

“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)

“Serendipity is not randomness, serendipity […] is unexpected relevance.”

        — Jeff Jarvis, This Week in Google

“It’s hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott and Costello world.”

        — Unknown

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

        — James Bryant Conant

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

        — Bertrand Russell

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

        — Richard Stevens (@rstevens)

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”

        — Emma Goldman

“Once the last developer is locked up and the last idea patented you will realise that lawyers can’t program.”

        — Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)

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

        — Alfred Fripp

“Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.”

        — Anonymous

“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”

        — Helen Hays

“Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.”

        — Washington Irving

“Thinking big generally scares everyone.”

        — Neil Gilmer

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“If you are using PowerPoint to even 25% of its potential, your presentation will probably suck.”

        — Karl Seguin, Goodbye Microsoft Office

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

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

        — John Benfield

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”

        — Maurice Freehill

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

        — Richard Buckminster Fuller

“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”

        — Richard J. Needham

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

        — Martin Heidegger

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

        — Jim Rohn

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

        — Unknown

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

        — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

        — Lily Tomlin

“When life shuts a door, open it again. It’s a door. That’s how they work.”

        — Unknown

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”

        — Andre Gide

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”

        — Claude Lévi-Strauss

“The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.”

        — Bob Hawke

“Never wear anything that panics the cat.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

“Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.”

“Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”

        — Cinderella by Oscar Hammerstein II

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

        — Barnett Cocks

“No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.”

        — Unknown

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

        — Oscar Wilde

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

        — Eric Evans

“Money may talk, but chocolate sings.”

        — Unknown

“Religion is like a drug, in small doses it’s curative, in large, it’s addictive.”

        — Eli Gold, The Good Wife

“Good design is clear thinking made visible. Bad design is stupidity made visible.”

        — Edward Tufte

“My writing process: 50 percent pacing, 20 percent snacks, 18 percent furious weeping, 12 percent actual writing.”

        — Brendan I. Koerner (@brendankoerner)

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

        — Henry Ford

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

        — Jim Barksdale (former Netscape CEO)

“Programming close to the hardware is bare metal. Programming close to javascript is bare stupid.”

        — Eamon Brosnan

“Liz is different from all the other girls I’ve known. For one thing, she likes me.”

        — Jon, Garfield

“Technology doesn’t make us dumb. It just allows us to make others aware of how dumb we are.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead.”

        — Irish Blessing

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

        — Richard Feynman

“Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”

        — Charles Schulz

“Find love when you have time, and find time when you already found the one to love.”

        — Terry Pratchett

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

        — @HAL9000_

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

        — Millard Fuller

“Well done is better than well said.”

        — Benjamin Franklin

“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

“We’ve spent more money bailing out the banks, in one year, than we’ve spent on Science in Britain, since Jesus.”

        — Professor Brian Cox

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

        — H. L. Mencken

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

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.”

        — Mistinguett

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week”

        — Spanish Proverb

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

        — Albert Camus

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

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

        — Samuel Beckett

“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.”

        — Unknown

“I will get through today with coffee and patience. Right now, what I have is coffee.”

        — Unknown

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

        — J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.”

        — C. A. R. Hoare

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

        — Laurence Peter

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

        — Greek proverb

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.”

        — Joan Rivers

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

        — Robert Heinlein

“Never be afraid to try, remember… Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

        — Unknown

“A library is thought in cold storage.”

        — Herbert Samuel

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”

        — Samuel Butler

“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

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

        — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“God is good, but never dance in a small boat.”

        — Irish Saying

“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

“A company that focuses solely on profits ultimately betrays both itself and society.”

        — Bill Hewlett and David Packard

“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.”

        — Wendell Phillips

“It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.”

        — Will Rogers

“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon feed them.”

        — Ian Kiernan

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”

        — Erma Bombeck

“Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs should get used to it.”

        — Robert Heinlein

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

        — Unknown

“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”

        — John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

        — Unknown

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

“Never try to look cool and learn something at the same time. You must have an awkward phase.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

        — Warren G. Bennis

“Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.”

        — Unknown

“Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.”

        — Unknown

(Say hi to your mum for me on Mothers’ Day this Sunday.)

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

“The biggest mistake men make is thinking they have to even remotely understand what it is that they’re apologising for.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.”

        — Liz Smith

“‘Need’ is irrelevant here. People do not need phones. They need food, shelter, and running faster than lions.”

        — Thomas Pornin in The DMZ

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

        — Milton Berle

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

        — Caprice Crane

“I praise loudly, I blame softly.”

        — Catherine the Great

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

        — Oscar Wilde

“…and on the 3rd day God finished creating the Earth, and it looked fantastic and worked really well. And then he checked it in IE…”

        — Simon (@intruth)

“I don’t mind suffering is silence, as long as everyone knows I’m suffering in silence."

        — Boho the hippopotamus, from the Jungle Doctor story, “Sweet and Sour Hippo”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

        — Judy Garland

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

        — Edward Abbey

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

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

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”

        — Bonnie Prudden

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

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

“It isn’t kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.”

        — Lawana Blackwell

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”

        — Lane Olinghouse

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

        — Eli Siegel

“The only things that are certain in life are death and taxes and my murderous rage if you don’t order your own fries and keep eating mine.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

The phrase, “Don’t take this the wrong way,” has a zero percent success rate.

        — Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan)

How can we call ourselves “evolved” when signs are needed to remind people to wash their hands after they go to the bathroom?

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

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

        — Mark Twain

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

        — Theodore Roosevelt

“Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

        — Aaron Sorkin #

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.”

        — Unknown

“Indecision becomes decision with time.”

        — Unknown

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“If you lend someone twenty dollars, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”

        — Unknown

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“Young people need models, not critics.”

        — John Wooden

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

        — Unknown

“Then what are we fighting for?”

        — Winston Churchill in response to a suggestion of cutting arts funding to support the war effort

“The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++”

        — David Jameson

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

        — Saint Augustine

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

        — Mae West

“My mind is like my internet browser. Nineteen tabs are open, three of them are frozen, and I have no idea where the music is coming from.”

        — Unknown

Events do not come naked into the public sphere. They come clothed in attitudes, values, frames of mind, recollections of the past, and projections into the future, full of passion, hope, and fear.

        — Robert Darnton

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

        — Naguib Mahfouz

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

        — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III Scene I

“Everybody always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.”

        — Mark Twain

“If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.”

        — Jan McKeithen

“Sometimes when you trade tradition for progress you wind up with neither. This isn’t one of those occasions but still, it’s a catchy saying.”

        — In Plain Sight

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.”

        — Kathryn Carpenter

“They say a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Why the truth is pantsless, no one mentions.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

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

        — James Freeman Clarke

“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”

        — Mark Twain

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

        — Jack Lang

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Carl Jung

“Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”

        — Mae West

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

        — Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC)

“The obstacle is the path.”

        — Zen Proverb

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

        — Roger H. Lincoln

“The man who never reads lives only once.”

        — George R. R. Martin

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

        — Richard Steele

Saying, “We need to talk,” is the most efficient way to freak someone out.

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — Edward Phelps

“I was married by a judge – I should have asked for a jury.”

        — Groucho Marx

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

        — Jacques Deval

“Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.”

        — Unknown

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

“Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.”

        — Unknown

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

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

        — Chinese Proverb

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

        — Unknown

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

        — Hunter S. Thompson

“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Supidity is the same. And that’s why life is hard.”

        — Jeremy Goldberg

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

        — Ernest Gaines

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

        — Richard Buckminster Fuller

“As user friendly as a cornered rat.”

        — Seen in a software review

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death”

        — H. H. Munro

“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.”

        — Soren Kierkegaard

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“Well done is better than well said.”

        — Benjamin Franklin

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

        — Caprice Crane

“Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.”

        — Unknown

“Religion is like a drug, in small doses it’s curative, in large, it’s addictive.”

        — Eli Gold, The Good Wife

“What little food grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here, even more so.”

        — Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon

“I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the 21st century is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

“Sometimes you’re the windshield, and sometimes you’re the bug.”

        — Mark Knopfler

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

        — Henry Ford

“Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.”

        — Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

“A man chases a woman until she catches him.”

        — American Proverb

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

        — Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011)

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”

        — Lillian Hellman

If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”

        — Epictetus

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

        — H. L. Mencken

“The biggest mistake men make is thinking they have to even remotely understand what it is that they’re apologising for.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct 1952