Thursday, September 30, 2010

“If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, ‘Help, they’ve turned me into a parrot’, you are wasting everybody’s time.”

        — Julia Segal (@juliasegal)

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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

        — Unknown

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

“The liberation of humanity is all or nothing.”

        — May 1968 Graffiti #

Monday, September 27, 2010

“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.”

        — G. M. Weilacher

Sunday, September 26, 2010

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

        — Milton Berle

Saturday, September 25, 2010

“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.”

        — Rita Mae Brown

Friday, September 24, 2010

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

        — Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Thursday, September 23, 2010

“Stock photos are the bullet points of the twenty-first century.”

        — Martin Fowler

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

“There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.”

        — Diana Trilling

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

“Young people need models, not critics.”

        — John Wooden

Monday, September 20, 2010

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

        — Anne Frank

Sunday, September 19, 2010

“Writing code a computer can understand is science. Writing code other programmers can understand is an art.”

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman

Saturday, September 18, 2010

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”

        — Mario Andretti

Friday, September 17, 2010

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

        — Anonymous

Thursday, September 16, 2010

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

        — Unknown

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

        — Sir Winston Churchill

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, pride, and arrogance.”

        — Samuel Butler

Monday, September 13, 2010

“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.”

        — Unknown

Sunday, September 12, 2010

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

        — Sidney Greenberg

Saturday, September 11, 2010

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

        — Leonardo da Vinci

Friday, September 10, 2010

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

        — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”

Thursday, September 9, 2010

“I used to think I wasn’t a morning person, but things never got better after lunch.”

        — Wally from Dilbert by Scott Adams

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

“Don’t be sad because its over. Smile because it happened.”

        — Dr. Seuss A.K.A. Theodore Giesel

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

“The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.”

        — Germain G. Glien

Monday, September 6, 2010

“It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.”

        — J. Petit Senn

Sunday, September 5, 2010

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

        — Mark Twain

Happy Fathers’ Day

Saturday, September 4, 2010

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

        — Bill Cosby

Friday, September 3, 2010

“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.”

        — Frances Willard

Thursday, September 2, 2010

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”

        — Jerry Rice

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

        — Tom Brokaw