“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”

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

        — Leo Buscaglia

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

        — Indira Gandhi

It amazes me that the same people that consider “developers” fungible are upset when the resources consider them equally exchangeable.

        — Torbjörn Gyllebring (@drunkcod)

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

        — Henrik Ibsen

“Depression means you cannot enjoy cats on the Internet.”

        — Paul Fenwick (watch @pjf’s five minute talk on YouTube)

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

“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

        — Banksy

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

        — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free.”

        — Jason Love

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”

        — Satchel Paige

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

        — Winston Churchill

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

        — Unknown

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

        — Anonymous

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

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

        — Mana (@damana)

“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

        — Ursula K. Le Guin

“He who has begun is half done.”

        — Horace

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

        — John F. Kennedy, 1962

“Capslock does not make technical support want to help you more.”

        — Lindsay (Trampoline Sept 2010)

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

        — Mark Knopfler

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

        — Joan Rivers

“The problem with Test-Driven Development is that you have to think about what you want the code to do before you write it. And that ruins the surprise.”

        — Jason Gorman

“Three words, eight letters, three syllables, five vowels, three consonants, two nouns, one emotion, many meanings, a big lie, a rare truth: I LOVE YOU!”

        — MJ (@_iamMJ)

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

        — Flash Rosenberg

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”

        — Lucille Ball

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

        — Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“Then what are we fighting for?”

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

“I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”

        — Bella Abzug

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

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

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

        — Clients From Hell

“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”

        — Josh Billings

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

        — Voltaire

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

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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

        — Caprice Crane

“He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I’m kinda glad he hit you.”

        — “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman

“Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.”

        — Mark van Doren

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

        — Millard Fuller

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

        — Rita Mae Brown

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you just might miss it.”

        — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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

        — William Feather

“Prejudices about what it means to be a person necessarily exclude those who are not bright on the stage of common action; those who do not welcome the glare of shining, blinding smiles, who do not lean closer to hear the roar and macramé of shouted words, who do not cut themselves and mould their flesh and spirit to fit the narrow human path, funnelling upward without looking back.”

        — Dawn Prince-Hughes, Songs of the Gorilla Nation

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

        — John Churton Collins

“Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be.”

        — Duncan Trussell

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

        — Albert Einstein

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

        — Giles Bowkett

“My shoes probably think I died.”

        — Bαѕєм|باسم #QuarantineQuotes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

        — Aristotle

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

        — Elbert Green Hubbard

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

        — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”

        — Howard Aiken

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

        — Saint Augustine

“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)

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

        — Unknown

“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

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

        — Emma Goldman

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

        — Garrison Keillor

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

        — Unknown

“Sometimes there is a silver bullet for boosting software engineering productivity. But you need to shoot the right person.”

        — Michael Stal (@stal_m)

“Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend.”

        — Unknown

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

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

        — Liz Smith

“If the guy next to you is swearing like a wharfie he’s probably a billionaire. Or, just conceivably, a wharfie.”

        — Australian observation

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

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

“The worst thing to be is successful as someone else.”

        — Jay-Z

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

        — Michel de Montaigne

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

        — Jack Lang

“Stand at the brink of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it anymore, draw back a little, and have a cup of tea.”

        — Sophrony Sakharov

“As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master once you utter it, you are its slave.”

        — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“Critical decisions need to be made as late as possible, but before they make themselves.”

        — Mary Poppendieck, YOW! 2010

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

        — Dwight Eisenhower

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

        — Sandra Carey

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

        — Thomas Jefferson

“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.”

        — Haim Ginott

“Could you make it less literal and more obvious?”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

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

        — Max L. Forman

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

        — Warren G. Bennis

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

        — Erma Bombeck

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

        — Jeremy Goldberg

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

“I’m toying with the idea of becoming a useful member of society.”

        — Wally from Dilbert, by Scott Adams