“The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.”

        — Irwin Edman

“You never truly understand concurrency until you’ve had your second child”

        — Old Erlang saying

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.”

        — Sydney Smith

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

        — Colin Powell

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

        — H. H. Munro

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

        — Flannery O’Connor

“The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.”

        — Samuel Johnson