Friday, September 30, 2016

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

        — T. S. Eliot

Thursday, September 29, 2016

“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”

        — Mae West

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

        — Ernest Gaines

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

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

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

Monday, September 26, 2016

“Visual programming is like trying to get to the moon by climbing a tree. You make a lot of good early progress, at first, but pretty soon you have to go back to your funding agency and ask for a bigger tree.”

        — Unknown

Friday, September 23, 2016

“Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”

        — Mae West

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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

        — Joe Konrath

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

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

        — Yiddish Proverb

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

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

        — Unknown

Monday, September 19, 2016

“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”

        — Edgar J. Mohn

Friday, September 16, 2016

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

        — Werner Finck

Thursday, September 15, 2016

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

        — John Locke

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

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

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

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

        — John Cassis

Monday, September 12, 2016

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

        — Michel de Montaigne

Friday, September 9, 2016

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

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

Thursday, September 8, 2016

“God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.”

        — Garrison Keillor

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Javascript had to “look like Java” only less so, be Java’s dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than Javascript would have happened.

        — Brendan Eich, creator of Javascript

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

“Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.”

        — Mother Teresa

Monday, September 5, 2016

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

        — Winston Churchill

Friday, September 2, 2016

“They say if you play that Microsoft CD backward you hear satanic messages. But that’s nothing, if you play it forward it installs Windows.”

Thursday, September 1, 2016

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

        — Charles Buxton