“Thinking big generally scares everyone.”

        — Neil Gilmer

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

        — Kahlil Gibran

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.”

        — Unknown

“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”

        — Howard Mumford Jones

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

        — Joseph Conrad

“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

He who think by the inch,
and talk by the mile,
ought to be kicked by the foot.

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

Whoever is under-represented in your life will be over-represented in your imagination.

        — Mónica Guzmá

“One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.”

        — Charles P. Issawi

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

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

        — Irish Saying

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

        — Pablo Casals

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

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

        — Kathryn Carpenter

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

        — Catherine Spence

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

        — Mary Manin Morrissey

“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet.”

        — Unknown

“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow