Tuesday, December 31, 2013

“It’s hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott and Costello world.”

        — Unknown

Monday, December 30, 2013

“Interpretive dance, when it succeeds, is still a failure.”

        — Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010

Friday, December 27, 2013

“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.”

Thursday, December 26, 2013

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

        — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

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

        — Torbjörn Gyllebring (@drunkcod)

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

“A company that focuses solely on profits ultimately betrays both itself and society.”

        — Bill Hewlett and David Packard

Monday, December 23, 2013

Just in time for Christmas, Q4TD is now available on Google Plus!

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace”

        — Robert J. Sawyer

Friday, December 20, 2013

“I am in favour of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands - after all, one must start somewhere.”

        — Sacha Guitry

Thursday, December 19, 2013

“Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity.”

        — Clay Shirky

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”

        — Calvin Coolidge

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Monday, December 16, 2013

“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”

        — Bill Vaughan

Friday, December 13, 2013

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

        — Kimberly Johnson

Thursday, December 12, 2013

“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”

        — Kenyan proverb

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.”

        — Merry Browne

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

        — John F. Kennedy

Monday, December 9, 2013

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

        — William Somerset Maugham

Friday, December 6, 2013

“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.”

        — Joan Gussow

Thursday, December 5, 2013

“If you lend someone twenty dollars, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

“I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

“English is already a fairly succinct language, but it appears to be succinctering.”

        — Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge)

Monday, December 2, 2013

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

        — Barnett Cocks

Friday, November 29, 2013

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

        — Garth Brooks

Thursday, November 28, 2013

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

        — Erin Major

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

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

        — Unknown

Monday, November 25, 2013

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

        — C. S. Lewis

Friday, November 22, 2013

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

        — Don Herrold

Thursday, November 21, 2013

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

“It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.”

        — David Cain

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

“There’s a word for a writer who never gives up… published.”

        — Joe Konrath

Monday, November 18, 2013

“My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.”

        — Ashleigh Brilliant

Friday, November 15, 2013

“Liz is different from all the other girls I’ve known. For one thing, she likes me.”

        — Jon, Garfield

Thursday, November 14, 2013

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”

        — William Stafford

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”

        — Howard Mumford Jones

Monday, November 11, 2013

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day”

        — Sarah Hepola

Friday, November 8, 2013

“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, November 7, 2013

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

        — Horace Mann

Monday, November 4, 2013

“The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.”

        — Arthur Lacey

Friday, November 1, 2013

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

        — Bella Abzug

Thursday, October 31, 2013

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”

        — Jorge Luis Borges

Monday, October 28, 2013

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Friday, October 25, 2013

“No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, October 24, 2013

“No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.”

        — Russian Proverb

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

“The biggest mistake men make is thinking they have to even remotely understand what it is that they’re apologising for.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

        — Mignon McLaughlin

Monday, October 21, 2013

“Fortunately excitement is one of the contagious things children carry.”

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)

Friday, October 18, 2013

“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour’s.”

        — Richard Whately

Thursday, October 17, 2013

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

        — Bill Cosby

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

“C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.”

        — Scott McKay

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

        — Unknown

Monday, October 14, 2013

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week”

        — Spanish Proverb

Friday, October 11, 2013

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

Thursday, October 10, 2013

“May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead.”

        — Irish Blessing

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”

        — Lane Olinghouse

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

        — Ray Bradbury

Monday, October 7, 2013

“Stupidity on the Internet is there for everyone to see for all times in perpetuity.”

        — Ron Kuby

Friday, October 4, 2013

“Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity.”

        — Clay Shirky

Thursday, October 3, 2013

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

        — Unknown

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

        — Derek Bok

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

        — Mark Twain

Monday, September 30, 2013

“If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.”

        — Unknown

Friday, September 27, 2013

“May this new decade be one of diversity instead of paranoia, of forgiveness instead of punishment, of equality instead of privilege.”

        — Van Badham (@vanbadham)

Thursday, September 26, 2013

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

Monday, September 23, 2013

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

Friday, September 20, 2013

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

        — Kahlil Gibran

Thursday, September 19, 2013

“I am in favour of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands - after all, one must start somewhere.”

        — Sacha Guitry

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”

        — William Safire

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

Monday, September 16, 2013

“If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.”

        — Voltaire

Friday, September 13, 2013

“Bing is a great Website for doing Internet searches. I know that, because I Googled it.”

        — Stephen Colbert

Thursday, September 12, 2013

“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers ‘users’”

        — Edward Tufte

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

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

        — Martin Fowler

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

        — Laurence Peter

Monday, September 9, 2013

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead

Friday, September 6, 2013

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

        — Howard Scott

Thursday, September 5, 2013

“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.”

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.”

        — James Branch Cabell

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

“Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it”

        — Frederick Pohl

(R.I.P. 26 Nov 1919 — 2 Sep 2013)

Monday, September 2, 2013

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Friday, August 30, 2013

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

        — Joseph Addison

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it “the first law of personal growth.”

        — Peter McWilliams

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

“English is already a fairly succinct language, but it appears to be succinctering.”

        — Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge)

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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

        — Unknown

Monday, August 26, 2013

“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”

        — Unknown

Friday, August 23, 2013

“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.”

        — Franz Kafka

Thursday, August 22, 2013

“It takes a considerable amount of effort to learn Vim. It takes twice as much to unlearn it.”

        — john2x on Hacker News

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

        — T. S. Eliot

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

Monday, August 19, 2013

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Friday, August 16, 2013

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you.”

        — Robert Fulghum

Thursday, August 15, 2013

No matter what your Chinese symbol tattoo says, I’m going to assume the translation is: “Please think I’m cool.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

        — Winston Churchill

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace”

        — Robert J. Sawyer

Monday, August 12, 2013

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

Friday, August 9, 2013

“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

Thursday, August 8, 2013

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.”

        — Billy Connolly

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

“Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus.”

        — Jessica Hagy #

Monday, August 5, 2013

“If the claws didn’t retract, cats would be like Velcro.”

        — Bruce Fogle

Friday, August 2, 2013

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

Thursday, August 1, 2013

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

        — Frederick Douglass

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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

        — Unknown

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.”

        — Unknown

Monday, July 29, 2013

Whenever my friends suggest going to a vegan restaurant, my first thought is, “what will I eat afterwards?”

        — David Siegel (@dvdsgl)

Friday, July 26, 2013

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

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

Thursday, July 25, 2013

“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”

        — John Henry Cardinal Newman

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.”

        — Doug Larson

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

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

        — Doug Larson

Monday, July 22, 2013

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”

        — John Cassis

Friday, July 19, 2013

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”

        — William Stafford

Thursday, July 18, 2013

“There are only two kinds of [programming] languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

“Technology doesn’t make us dumb. It just allows us to make others aware of how dumb we are.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

“There are only two kinds of [programming] languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

Monday, July 15, 2013

“I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.”

        — Unknown

Friday, July 12, 2013

“The only things that are certain in life are death and taxes and my murderous rage if you don’t order your own fries and keep eating mine.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Thursday, July 11, 2013

“Adulthood is like the vet, and we’re all the dogs that were excited for the car ride until we realized where we’re going.”

        — Stephanie McMaster (@Smethanie)

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

“You’re making this too complicated when it’s really quite simple. All you have to do is make the software completely configurable so it can do whatever I need it to.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

        — Albert Einstein

Monday, July 8, 2013

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”

        — Calvin Coolidge

Friday, July 5, 2013

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

        — Greek proverb

Thursday, July 4, 2013

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

        — Indira Gandhi

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

“I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.”

        — Jane Wagner

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

“If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.”

        — Unknown

Monday, July 1, 2013

“My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.”

        — Groucho Marx

Friday, June 28, 2013

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

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Thursday, June 27, 2013

“You just have to make the transition from weird to eccentric and then you’re okay.”

        — John Elder Robinson

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

        — Harold Wilson

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

        — Aesop

Monday, June 24, 2013

“Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.”

        — Dandemis

Friday, June 21, 2013

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

        — George Jean Nathan

Thursday, June 20, 2013

“Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

“Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

“I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.”

        — Mark Twain

Monday, June 17, 2013

“The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.”

        — Unknown

Friday, June 14, 2013

That’s why it was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards — not “not doing magic” because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn’t. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.

        — Terry Pratchett

Thursday, June 13, 2013

“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

        — Christopher Morley

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

“Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

        — St Antoine de Exupéry

Monday, June 10, 2013

“Never be afraid to try, remember… Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

        — Unknown

Friday, June 7, 2013

The phrase, “Don’t take this the wrong way,” has a zero percent success rate.

        — Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan)

Thursday, June 6, 2013

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

        — Doug Larson

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion but doesn’t.”

        — Tom Waits

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

“Hatred is one long wait.”

        — René Maran

Monday, June 3, 2013

“Eat the first Skittle in the bag like it’s the last Skittle in the bag.”

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

Friday, May 31, 2013

“Money may talk, but chocolate sings.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, May 30, 2013

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

        — Josh Billings

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.”

        — Doug Larson

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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

        — Old Erlang saying

Monday, May 27, 2013

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

        — Martin Fowler

Friday, May 24, 2013

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

        — Bella Abzug

Thursday, May 23, 2013

“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.”

        — Horace Greeley

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

“With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

“Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.”

        — Unknown

Monday, May 20, 2013

“Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.”

        — Will Smith

Friday, May 17, 2013

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Thursday, May 16, 2013

“Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

“There are those that avoid failure, and those that seek success; those that avoid complexity, and those that seek simplicity.”

        — Simon Harris (@haruki_zaemon)

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

“It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.”

        — Matthew Henry

Monday, May 13, 2013

“I saw `cout’ being shifted “Hello world” times to the left and stopped right there.”

        — Steve Gonedes

Friday, May 10, 2013

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

        — Haim Ginott

Thursday, May 9, 2013

“Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.”

        — Irisa Hail

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

“A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.”

        — Rodney Dangerfield

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.”

        — John Shirley

Monday, May 6, 2013

“Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people’s mistakes.”

        — David Wheeler

Friday, May 3, 2013

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

        — John Cage

Thursday, May 2, 2013

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.”

        — William Faulkner

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

        — Mark Twain

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

“It’s hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott and Costello world.”

        — Unknown

Monday, April 29, 2013

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.”

        — Unknown

Friday, April 26, 2013

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

        — Jean Baptiste Colbert

Thursday, April 25, 2013

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

        — Mark Twain

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

“Indecision becomes decision with time.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

        — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Monday, April 22, 2013

“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Friday, April 19, 2013

“Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”

        — Alfred E. Neuman

Thursday, April 18, 2013

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

        — William Makepeace Thackeray

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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

        — Flannery O’Connor

Monday, April 15, 2013

“Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.”

        — Unknown

Friday, April 12, 2013

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

        — Danny Kaye

Thursday, April 11, 2013

“I mean seriously, aren’t there days when you’d rather open an artery than check your email?”

        — J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

“You have reached the Internal Revenue Service. To confess in English, press one…”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Monday, April 8, 2013

“Someday humanity will defeat Skynet by installing iTunes and McAfee on it.”

        — Lowell (@howtogeek)

Friday, April 5, 2013

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

        — Danny Kaye

Thursday, April 4, 2013

“What little food grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here, even more so.”

        — Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

“Middle names exist so kids have a clear indication when they are in big trouble.”

        — Michael Lopp (@rands)

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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

        — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Monday, April 1, 2013

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”

        — Errol Flynn

Friday, March 29, 2013

“Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, March 28, 2013

“The biggest mistake men make is thinking they have to even remotely understand what it is that they’re apologising for.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

“We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.”

        — Winston Churchill

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

“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

Monday, March 25, 2013

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

        — Liz Smith

Friday, March 22, 2013

“When there was only one set of footprints in the sand, that was when I bailed because you wouldn’t stop talking about your gluten allergy.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Thursday, March 21, 2013

“Be curious, not judgemental.”

        — Walt Whitman

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

        — Leo Tolstoy

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

Monday, March 18, 2013

“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.”

        — Unknown

Friday, March 15, 2013

“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.”

        — Sam Brown

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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

        — Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

        — Louisa May Alcott

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

Monday, March 11, 2013

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”

        — Maurice Freehill

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

“If you can put an axe through it, it’s hardware; if you want to put an axe through it, it’s software.”

        — Unknown

Monday, February 25, 2013

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

        — Les Brown

Friday, February 22, 2013

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — Edward Phelps

Monday, February 18, 2013

“I was a goth for two years. It turned out I was depressed.”

        — Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010

Thursday, February 14, 2013

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.”

        — Calvin Coolidge

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.”

        — Sigmund Freud

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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

        — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

Monday, February 11, 2013

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

        — Samuel Beckett

Friday, February 8, 2013

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

        — Benjamin Franklin

Thursday, February 7, 2013

“If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.”

        — Voltaire

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

“It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.”

        — David Cain

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

“‘Need’ is irrelevant here. People do not need phones. They need food, shelter, and running faster than lions.”

        — Thomas Pornin in The DMZ

Monday, February 4, 2013

“The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

Friday, February 1, 2013

“I am having an out of money experience.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, January 31, 2013

“All our knowledge transfer was done in person using heavy sarcasm and obscure hand waving.”

        — David Tate, Companies that support remote workers win against those that don’t

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Monday, January 28, 2013

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

        — Satchel Paige

Friday, January 25, 2013

“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

        — Katharine Brush

Thursday, January 24, 2013

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day”

        — Sarah Hepola

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

“Winners win and losers have meetings.”

        — Ozzie Guillen

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

“The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.”

        — Henry Van Dyke

Monday, January 21, 2013

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

        — Sydney J. Harris

Friday, January 18, 2013

“No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.”

        — Russian Proverb

Thursday, January 17, 2013

“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.”

        — Leo Rosten

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”

        — Jonathan Winters

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.”

        — Benny Hill

Monday, January 14, 2013

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

        — Albert Einstein

Friday, January 11, 2013

“If at first you don’t succeed, that’s one data point.”

        — xkcd by Randall Munroe

Thursday, January 10, 2013

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”

        — Jennifer Yane

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

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

        — Millard Fuller

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

        — Mark Twain

Monday, January 7, 2013

“If the claws didn’t retract, cats would be like Velcro.”

        — Bruce Fogle

Friday, January 4, 2013

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”

        — Navajo Proverb

Thursday, January 3, 2013

“My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.”

        — Ashleigh Brilliant

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

“If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.”

        — George Barzan

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”

        — Kenyan proverb