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

        — Unknown

“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)