Wednesday, December 31, 2014

“Every time someone makes a programming tool for people who can’t program, you get programs written by people who can’t program.”

        — Scott Bellware (@ampgt)

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

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

        — Merry Browne

Monday, December 29, 2014

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

        — Ellen Parr

Friday, December 26, 2014

“Multitasking, that characteristic survival activity of the 21st century.”

        — Cory Doctorow #

Thursday, December 25, 2014

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

        — Unknown

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”

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

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

“The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

Monday, December 22, 2014

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

Friday, December 19, 2014

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”

        — Ira Gassen

Thursday, December 18, 2014

“I know it’s impossible, but can you do it anyway?”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.”

        — Keith Bostic

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

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

        — Albert Einstein

Monday, December 15, 2014

“Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”

        — Robert C. Savage

Friday, December 12, 2014

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

Thursday, December 11, 2014

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

        — J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

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

        — Mark Twain

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”

        — Aesop

Monday, December 8, 2014

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

        — Stephen Leacock

Friday, December 5, 2014

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

        — Sam Rayburn

Thursday, December 4, 2014

“Programmers don’t burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not ‘shipping’.”

        — Mark Berry

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

“Programming is an art form that fights back.”

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Ode to traffic jams
how I detest this time sink
where are flying cars?

        — Marissa (@dj_marz)

Monday, December 1, 2014

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”

        — Henry C. Link

Friday, November 28, 2014

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

        — Mark Twain

Thursday, November 27, 2014

“If a web site goes down, and there’s nobody searching for it, is it really offline?”

        — Gary Markstein and Anthony Rubino Jr, Daddy’s Home

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

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

        — Dandemis

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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

        — Ashleigh Brilliant

Monday, November 24, 2014

“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

Friday, November 21, 2014

“Socialising on the internet is to socialising, what reality TV is to reality.”

        — Aaron Sorkin

Thursday, November 20, 2014

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.”

        — John Greenleaf Whittier

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

“Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

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

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)

Monday, November 17, 2014

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

        — Joseph Addison

Friday, November 14, 2014

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

        — Dale Carnegie

Thursday, November 13, 2014

“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.”

        — Groucho Marx

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.”

        — Voltaire

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”

        — Lynda Barry

Monday, November 10, 2014

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

        — William Safire

Friday, November 7, 2014

“When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb.”

        — Amazon interview candidate

Thursday, November 6, 2014

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

        — Scott McKay

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

“Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.”

        — Miguel de Cervantes

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

“My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide.”

        — Unknown

Monday, November 3, 2014

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

Friday, October 31, 2014

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

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

Thursday, October 30, 2014

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

        — Will Rogers

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

        — Hofstadter’s Law

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

        — John Barrymore

Monday, October 27, 2014

“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson

Friday, October 24, 2014

“Winners win and losers have meetings.”

        — Ozzie Guillen

Thursday, October 23, 2014

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.”

        — Anthony D’Angelo

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

Monday, October 20, 2014

“HTTP is the dial tone of the web.”

        — Chris Tucker

Friday, October 17, 2014

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”

        — Isaac Asimov

Thursday, October 16, 2014

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

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

        — Andrew Jackson

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

“I don’t wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.”

        — Woody Allen

Monday, October 13, 2014

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

        — Lao Tzu

Friday, October 10, 2014

“Design without a cost target is just art class”

        — Clothing designer from Nike

Thursday, October 9, 2014

“Yesterday. All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.”

        — Ben Simo (@QualityFrog)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

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

        — Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

        — W. M. Lewis

Monday, October 6, 2014

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

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

Friday, October 3, 2014

“If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.”

        — Alfred Fripp

Thursday, October 2, 2014

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

        — Upton Sinclair

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”

        — Arnold H. Glasgow

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

“I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.”

        — Bern Williams

Monday, September 29, 2014

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

        — Henry Ford

Friday, September 26, 2014

“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.”

        — Flash Rosenberg

Thursday, September 25, 2014

“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, September 24, 2014

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

        — Frank A. Clark

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

Monday, September 22, 2014

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

        — Doug Larson

Friday, September 19, 2014

“There are only two things software professionals dislike: the way things are, and change.”

        — Tobias Mayer (@tobiasmayer)

Thursday, September 18, 2014

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

        — David Starr Jordan

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

“Remember, you can do work outside of your paid hours as well.”

        — Clients From Hell

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

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

        — Haim Ginott

Monday, September 15, 2014

“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”

        — Robert Byrne

Friday, September 12, 2014

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

        — Mae West

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Whenever You meet a person for the first time, say in your head “I know you can read minds"… just in case.

        — Vincent Usher (@ushervince)

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

“Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalising animal.”

        — Robert A. Heinlein

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

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

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

Monday, September 8, 2014

“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, September 5, 2014

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

        — Anais Nin

Thursday, September 4, 2014

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”

        — Dave Barry

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

        — Hunter S. Thompson

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

When we “solve” copyright problems at the expense of the Internet, we solve them at the expense of 21st-century society as a whole.

        — Cory Doctorow, It’s Time to Stop Talking About Copyright

Monday, September 1, 2014

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Friday, August 29, 2014

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’”

        — Eve Merriam

Thursday, August 28, 2014

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

        — Frederick Pohl

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

“To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

        — E. E. Cummings

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

“No one plans to fail. They just go online. Then check their e-mail. Then go to twitter… and it just happens organically.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Monday, August 25, 2014

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

        — Jim Barksdale (former Netscape CEO)

Friday, August 22, 2014

“It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.”

        — Will Rogers

Thursday, August 21, 2014

“Organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

“Always kiss your children good night, even if they’re already asleep.”

        — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

“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)

Monday, August 18, 2014

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

        — Bella Abzug

Friday, August 15, 2014

“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, August 14, 2014

“I’m sorry but if you’re still using an AOL email address, I just can’t take you seriously.”

        — @HAL9000_

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

“He who has begun is half done.”

        — Horace

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

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

        — Louisa May Alcott

Monday, August 11, 2014

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

        — Judy Garland

Friday, August 8, 2014

“Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

        — Warren G. Bennis

Thursday, August 7, 2014

“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”

        — Paul Eldridge

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

“We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.”

        — Paul Boese

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

“When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Monday, August 4, 2014

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

Friday, August 1, 2014

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.”

        — Peter Williams

Thursday, July 31, 2014

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

        — Richard Bach

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.”

        — Ryan Singer

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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

        — Anne Frank

Monday, July 28, 2014

“When you sling mud, you lose ground.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Friday, July 25, 2014

“Ever since I discovered Twitter, I’ve been trying to stop using it.”

        — Giles Bowkett

Thursday, July 24, 2014

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

        — Edward Tufte

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.”

        — Rabindranath Tagore

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

        — Aristotle

Monday, July 21, 2014

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

        — Richard Whately

Friday, July 18, 2014

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, July 17, 2014

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

“The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.”

        — Wendell Phillips

Monday, July 14, 2014

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

        — Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)

Friday, July 11, 2014

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

        — Graham Perkins

Thursday, July 10, 2014

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

        — James Oppenheim

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

        — James Nicoll

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

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

        — Ray Bradbury

Monday, July 7, 2014

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

        — William Somerset Maugham

Friday, July 4, 2014

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.”

        — Mistinguett

Pucker up, this Sunday is International Kissing Day!

Thursday, July 3, 2014

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

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

        — Adam Donnison

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

“Love is like Pi – natural, irrational, and VERY important.”

Monday, June 30, 2014

“I named my kitten Rose: fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.”

        — Astrid Alauda

Friday, June 27, 2014

“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.”

        — Mana (@damana)

Thursday, June 26, 2014

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

        — Plato

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

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

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

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

Monday, June 23, 2014

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

        — Unknown

Friday, June 20, 2014

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”

        — Mark Twain

Thursday, June 19, 2014

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”

        — Richard Carlson

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

“Twitter spoils us. If only we could limit people in real life to 140 characters or less.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Monday, June 16, 2014

“…Plus it’s the only way George Lucas characters will ever be three dimensional.”

        — Peter David

Friday, June 13, 2014

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

        — Francis Bacon

Thursday, June 12, 2014

“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life – reciprocity.”

        — Confucius

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”

        — Edna Woolman Chase

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it necessary? Is it true? Does it improve upon the silence?”

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

Monday, June 9, 2014

“I am pretty sure no matter what I put in my Facebook status, I won’t cure cancer, help Haiti or raise awareness for anything, except my Facebook status.”

        — Lyz Lenz (@lyzl)

Friday, June 6, 2014

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

        — Adam Donnison

Thursday, June 5, 2014

“When you sling mud, you lose ground.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

“Remember, you can do work outside of your paid hours as well.”

        — Clients From Hell

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

Monday, June 2, 2014

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

        — John F. Kennedy, 1962

Friday, May 30, 2014

“The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it’s more like a tired feeling.”

        — Paula Poundstone

Thursday, May 29, 2014

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

        — Anne Frank

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

“If there were an antisocial networking site, I might join, but what would be the point?”

        — Annoyed Librarian

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

        — W. M. Lewis

Monday, May 26, 2014

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

        — Stephen Leacock

Friday, May 23, 2014

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

        — John Ruskin

Thursday, May 22, 2014

“It’s only impossible if you stop to think about it!”

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

        — J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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

        — David Tate (@mixteenth)

Monday, May 19, 2014

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

        — T. S. Eliot

Friday, May 16, 2014

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, May 15, 2014

“The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.”

        — Audrey Hepburn

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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

        — Mignon McLaughlin

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

        — Henry Winkler

Monday, May 12, 2014

“When you judge someone it doesn’t define who they are, it defines who you are”

        — Unknown

Friday, May 9, 2014

“No matter how big and bad you are, when a two year old hands you a toy phone, you answer it.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, May 8, 2014

“Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.”

        — African Proverb

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

“Programming close to the hardware is bare metal. Programming close to javascript is bare stupid.”

        — Eamon Brosnan

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

“Twitter: It’s like release early, release often for thinking.”

        — Glyn Moody (Linux.conf.au 2010 keynote)

Monday, May 5, 2014

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

        — Henrik Ibsen

Friday, May 2, 2014

“Never wear anything that panics the cat.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

Thursday, May 1, 2014

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

        — Millard Fuller

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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

        — Unknown

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

Monday, April 28, 2014

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

        — Martin Heidegger

Friday, April 25, 2014

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

        — Les Brown

Thursday, April 24, 2014

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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

        — Colin Powell

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

        — Unknown

Monday, April 21, 2014

“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

        — W. A. Nance

Friday, April 18, 2014

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician & philosopher

Thursday, April 17, 2014

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

“At some point the entire universe will become a black, cold, lifeless void. So pass me my damned coffee.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

        — Jim Barksdale (former Netscape CEO)

Monday, April 14, 2014

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Friday, April 11, 2014

“At some point the entire universe will become a black, cold, lifeless void. So pass me my damned coffee.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, April 10, 2014

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

        — George E. Woodberry

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

        — James Nicoll

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

“All the world’s a stage! And here I am in the blooper reel!”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Monday, April 7, 2014

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

        — Leonardo da Vinci

Friday, April 4, 2014

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician & philosopher

Thursday, April 3, 2014

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

        — Upton Sinclair

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

We have not succeeded in answering all your problems.

The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions.

In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

        — Unknown

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

“Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

        — Albert Camus

Monday, March 31, 2014

“I loved Git until I tried it. Now I love Mercurial.”

        — Tor Norbye, The Java Posse Podcast

Friday, March 28, 2014

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

        — Bertha Calloway

Thursday, March 27, 2014

“In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.”

        — Jeff Bezos

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

        — Henry Brooks Adams

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”

        — Spanish Proverb

Monday, March 24, 2014

“There’s nothing more noble than a good try.”

        — Gordon Parks

Friday, March 21, 2014

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

        — Colin Powell

Thursday, March 20, 2014

“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

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

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

        — Irish Saying

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”

        — Richard Carlson

Monday, March 17, 2014

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

        — Nelson Mandela

Friday, March 14, 2014

“Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.”

        — Neil Gaiman, 2012 New Year resolution

Thursday, March 13, 2014

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”

        — Charles de Montesquieu

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

“Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colour blind.”

        — Austin O’Malley

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

        — Sydney J. Harris

Monday, March 10, 2014

“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.”

        — Mary Anne Radmacher

Friday, March 7, 2014

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

        — Doug Larson

Thursday, March 6, 2014

“The day Microsoft makes something that doesn’t suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.”

        — Ernst Jan Plugge

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

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

        — Ray Bradbury

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”

        — Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)

Monday, March 3, 2014

“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 28, 2014

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Thursday, February 27, 2014

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”

        — Benjamin Jowett

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”

        — P. J. O’Rourke

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”

        — Demosthenes

Monday, February 24, 2014

“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”

        — Andrew V. Mason

Friday, February 21, 2014

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

        — Bill Cosby

Thursday, February 20, 2014

I confessed to my mother that I’ve been hallucinating again and she said, “Well, at least, you’re seeing someone.”

        — Mr. Won’t (@Brain_Wash)

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

        — Lewis Smedes

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

Monday, February 17, 2014

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

        — Andrew Jackson

Friday, February 14, 2014

“We’ve spent more money bailing out the banks, in one year, than we’ve spent on Science in Britain, since Jesus.”

        — Professor Brian Cox

Thursday, February 13, 2014

“It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.”

        — Will Rogers

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.”

        — Lilly Tomlin

Monday, February 10, 2014

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

Friday, February 7, 2014

“The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

        — William Gibson

Thursday, February 6, 2014

“Don’t fall in love, Odie. You already act stupid enough.”

        — Garfield (by Jim Davis)

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

Monday, February 3, 2014

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

        — Henry Ford

Friday, January 31, 2014

“The man who never reads lives only once.”

        — George R. R. Martin

Thursday, January 30, 2014

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

“A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children.”

        — David Brenner

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

        — Woody Allen

Monday, January 27, 2014

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

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Friday, January 24, 2014

“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

        — Peter Drucker

Thursday, January 23, 2014

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.”

        — Yiddish Proverb

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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

        — Albert Einstein

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

“Dig the well before you are thirsty.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Monday, January 20, 2014

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

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

Friday, January 17, 2014

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’”

        — Eve Merriam

Thursday, January 16, 2014

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

        — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.”

        — Spanish Proverb

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”

        — Georges Bernanos, The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos (1955), “Why Freedom?”

Monday, January 13, 2014

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

        — Mark Twain

Friday, January 10, 2014

“Then what are we fighting for?”

        — Winston Churchill in response to a suggestion of cutting arts funding to support the war effort

Thursday, January 9, 2014

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

        — Carl Bard

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.”

        — Rebecca West

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

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

        — Werner Finck

Monday, January 6, 2014

“The illiterate of the 21st Century won’t be those can’t read and write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn and re-learn.”

        — Alvin Tofler

Friday, January 3, 2014

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”

        — Lillian Hellman

Thursday, January 2, 2014

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

        — George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela