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

        — Irish Saying

“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.”

        — Richard Hamming

“Corporate policy is the great leveller, allows the gibbering idiot not to think and drives the intelligent to gibbering idiocy.”

        — Adam Donnison

“It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

“Some people are like slinkies – not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.”

“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.”

        — David Gelernter

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

        — Haim Ginott

“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”

        — Ann Landers

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

“We’re not just just humans anymore. We’re not multiple personalities, we’re many personalities… uh, one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality but that doesn’t make me a multiple personality. I’m looking for a little nuance here.”

        — Alpha, Dollhouse

“It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.”

        — Millard Fuller

“Silence was never written down.”

        — Italian Proverb

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

        — Werner Finck

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”

        — William Shakespeare

“Forever is composed of nows.”

        — Emily Dickinson

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

        — Doug Larson

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

        — James Oppenheim

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”

        — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

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

        — Lao Tzu

“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

“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

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

        — Graham Perkins

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”

        — Peter Drucker