Monday, December 31, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Friday, December 28, 2018

“Americans will always reach for their lawyers first.”

        — Neil Brennan, Ignite Melbourne 2010

Thursday, December 27, 2018

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

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

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

        — Scott McKay

Monday, December 24, 2018

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

        — James Branch Cabell

Friday, December 21, 2018

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

        — Milton Berle

Thursday, December 20, 2018

“Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

“I think of optimism as a brave choice rather than an ignorant position.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

“This crash always occured with the Skype toolbar, speaking of malware.”

        — Firefox Developer, Linux.conf.au 2012

Monday, December 17, 2018

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

Friday, December 14, 2018

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

        — Winston Churchill

Thursday, December 13, 2018

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

        — Woodrow Wilson

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

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

        — Robert Fulghum

Monday, December 10, 2018

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, December 7, 2018

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

        — Pablo Casals

Thursday, December 6, 2018

“No matter what it is I’m doing, there’s always about an 85% chance I’m supposed to be doing something else.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

        — Aristotle

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”

        — William Shakespeare

Monday, December 3, 2018

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

        — W. Somerset Maugham

Friday, November 30, 2018

“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

Thursday, November 29, 2018

“No matter what amazing things you accomplish or how fantastic you are, a cat will always think it is better than you.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

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

        — Adam Donnison

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

“Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.”

        — Grey Livingston

Monday, November 26, 2018

“Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.”

        — Douglas Adams

Friday, November 23, 2018

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

Thursday, November 22, 2018

“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon feed them.”

        — Ian Kiernan

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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

        — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Monday, November 19, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Friday, November 16, 2018

“Everybody always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.”

        — Mark Twain

Thursday, November 15, 2018

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

        — Amazon interview candidate

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

“We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.”

        — Unknown

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

Monday, November 12, 2018

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

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Friday, November 9, 2018

/* Sometimes I believe the compiler ignores all my comments. */

        — Unknown Programmer

Thursday, November 8, 2018

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realise what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”

        — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

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

        — Ira Gassen

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

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

        — Bern Williams

Monday, November 5, 2018

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

        — Henry Ford

Friday, November 2, 2018

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

        — John Greenleaf Whittier

Thursday, November 1, 2018

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

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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

        — Frank A. Clark

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

“He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I’m kinda glad he hit you.”

        — “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman

Monday, October 29, 2018

“The heart is the first feature of working minds.”

        — Frank Lloyd Wright

Friday, October 26, 2018

“Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, October 25, 2018

“Dogs with thumbs would make you coffee, cats with thumbs would steal your car.”

        — Richard Stevens (@rstevens)

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

        — Sydney J. Harris

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

“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

Monday, October 22, 2018

“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, October 19, 2018

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

        — The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Thursday, October 18, 2018

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”

        — Grey’s law

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”

        — Billy Wilder

Monday, October 15, 2018

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

        — Hofstadter’s Law

Friday, October 12, 2018

“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”

        — Unknown

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

        — Aesop

Thursday, October 11, 2018

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

        — Paula Poundstone

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

“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, October 9, 2018

“There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”

        — Ursula K. Le Guin

Monday, October 8, 2018

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

        — Diana Trilling

Friday, October 5, 2018

“I guess cows aren’t into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.”

        — Anthony Clark

Thursday, October 4, 2018

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

        — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

“There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.”

        — Roger H. Lincoln

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

“Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity.”

        — Clay Shirky

Monday, October 1, 2018

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

        — Michel de Montaigne

Friday, September 28, 2018

“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

        — Albert Einstein

Thursday, September 27, 2018

“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”

        — Po Bronson

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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

        — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Monday, September 24, 2018

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

        — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friday, September 21, 2018

“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”

        — Richard J. Needham

Thursday, September 20, 2018

“A nice thing about being single is when you’re setting the silverware it doesn’t matter which side you put the remote on.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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

        — Michael Lopp (@rands)

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

“Reality shows are great because they let you watch dysfunctional people without an annoying mirror.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Monday, September 17, 2018

“He who has begun is half done.”

        — Horace

Friday, September 14, 2018

“When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.”

        — Otto von Bismarck

Thursday, September 13, 2018

“Programming is an art form that fights back.”

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

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

        — Stephen Leacock

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

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

        — James Branch Cabell

Monday, September 10, 2018

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

        — Sam Keen

Friday, September 7, 2018

My personal pet peeve is how many people think the hard part is in the “big and hard problems” or in some fluffy but important-sounding thing like “innovation”. In fact, all the real work is in getting the details right. It’s that “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” thing. People seem to think that inspiration is the much bigger and important part of the two, but I’ve come to believe that while it’s important to have inspiration, where people actually stumble is when they can’t execute on that inspiration. Inspiration isn’t that rare in the end, but people who have it and then actually follow through… that’s rare.

        — Linus Torvalds

Thursday, September 6, 2018

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

        — John Locke

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

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

        — Peter McWilliams

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

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

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

Monday, September 3, 2018

“They say a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Why the truth is pantsless, no one mentions.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Friday, August 31, 2018

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

        — Josephine Hart, Damage

Thursday, August 30, 2018

“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, August 29, 2018

“Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

        — Lois Wyse

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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

        — Albert Einstein

Monday, August 27, 2018

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

        — Charles de Montesquieu

P.S. Q4TD is now on Mastodon! https://mastodon.social/@q4td

Friday, August 24, 2018

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”

        — William James

Thursday, August 23, 2018

“Change is inevitable. Unless you need it to feed the parking meter. Then it’s nowhere to be found.”

        — Caprice Crane

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.”

        — Sigmund Freud

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

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

        — Judy Garland

Monday, August 20, 2018

“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.”

        — Joseph Goebbels

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

        — Unknown

Friday, August 17, 2018

“Confusion is a renewable resource.”

        — Kent Beck (@KentBeck)

Thursday, August 16, 2018

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.”

        — John Churton Collins

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

“The problem with quick and dirty, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten.”

        — Steve C McConnell

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

“When you’re in that voting booth with just your conscience and a pen, take the pen because that’s all you’ll ever get out of them.”

Monday, August 13, 2018

“A library is thought in cold storage.”

        — Herbert Samuel

Friday, August 10, 2018

“Often we don’t really need advice or guidance from each other. Sometimes we just need a friend to deposit courage into our soul.”

        — Mike Foster

Thursday, August 9, 2018

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

        — George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

        — Mark Russell

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

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

        — Richard Carlson

Monday, August 6, 2018

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

Friday, August 3, 2018

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

        — Robert Anthony

Thursday, August 2, 2018

“In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn’t exists, so let’s not hope for one.”

        — Ze Frank, The Show, 18 Apr 2006

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

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

        — George Barzan

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

        — Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Monday, July 30, 2018

“People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.”

        — Unknown

Friday, July 27, 2018

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

        — Mignon McLaughlin

Thursday, July 26, 2018

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

        — Leo Rosten

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

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

        — William Ralph Inge

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

“It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.”

        — W. Somerset Maugham

Monday, July 23, 2018

“Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.”

        — Unknown

Friday, July 20, 2018

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

        — Satchel Paige

Thursday, July 19, 2018

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

        — Eamon Brosnan

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton

Monday, July 16, 2018

“Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise.”

Friday, July 13, 2018

“In the olden days, if you wanted to watch an American TV show as soon as it came out, you had to get an expensive flight to America every week. But now, thanks to the internet, it’s much easier to find cheaper flights to America.”

        — Tim Berners-Lee

Thursday, July 12, 2018

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

        — J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski)

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

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

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

        — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Monday, July 9, 2018

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

        — Edward Tufte

Friday, July 6, 2018

“My writing process: 50 percent pacing, 20 percent snacks, 18 percent furious weeping, 12 percent actual writing.”

        — Brendan I. Koerner (@brendankoerner)

Thursday, July 5, 2018

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”

        — Samuel Butler

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

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

        — Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek)

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

“Dear coffee: we had a deal. I’d put you in my body, you would give me super powers. WTF happened?”

        — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)

Monday, July 2, 2018

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

        — Sir Winston Churchill

Friday, June 29, 2018

“I was married by a judge – I should have asked for a jury.”

        — Groucho Marx

Thursday, June 28, 2018

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

        — Leo Buscaglia

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

“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

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

“People are people through other people.”

        — African Proverb

Monday, June 25, 2018

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”

        — Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friday, June 22, 2018

“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, June 21, 2018

“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.”

        — C. A. R. Hoare

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

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

        — Lillian Hellman

Monday, June 18, 2018

“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

        — Confucius

Friday, June 15, 2018

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

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

Thursday, June 14, 2018

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

        — Stephen King

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

“At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.”

        — Marshall Lumsden

Monday, June 11, 2018

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

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Friday, June 8, 2018

“As user friendly as a cornered rat.”

        — Seen in a software review

Thursday, June 7, 2018

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

        — Dwight Eisenhower

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

“Does anybody remember Microsoft? They use to be a big company.”

        — Mitch Wagner, This Week in Google

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

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

        — Edna Woolman Chase

Monday, June 4, 2018

“Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life – for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.”

        — Laura Teresa Marquez

Friday, June 1, 2018

“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)

Thursday, May 31, 2018

“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

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

        — Carrie Fisher

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

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

        — John Barrymore

Monday, May 28, 2018

“Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbour is a spiritual one.”

        — Nikolai Bardlyaev

Friday, May 25, 2018

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

        — Ellen Parr

Thursday, May 24, 2018

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

        — Albert Einstein

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”

        — George Eliot

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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

        — Hanlon’s Razor

Monday, May 21, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Friday, May 18, 2018

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

        — T. S. Eliot

Thursday, May 17, 2018

“Rewriting is an opportunity to find new ways of coding old bugs, as well as exciting new bugs.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

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

        — Dandemis

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

        — Oscar Wilde

Monday, May 14, 2018

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

        — Carl Sagan

Friday, May 11, 2018

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

        — Japanese Proverb

Thursday, May 10, 2018

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.”

        — Unknown

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

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

        — Matthew Henry

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

“Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.”

        — Washington Irving

Monday, May 7, 2018

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

        — Aesop

Friday, May 4, 2018

“It’s not whether you win or lose – but whether I win or lose.”

        — Sandy Lyle

Thursday, May 3, 2018

“Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.”

        — Douglas Adams

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

“Change is inevitable. Unless you need it to feed the parking meter. Then it’s nowhere to be found.”

        — Caprice Crane

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

        — Dennis M. Ritchie

Monday, April 30, 2018

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

        — Dave Barry

Friday, April 27, 2018

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

        — G. M. Weilacher

Thursday, April 26, 2018

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

        — Milton Berle

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

        — Hilary Cooper

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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

        — Sacha Guitry

Monday, April 23, 2018

“The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++”

        — David Jameson

Friday, April 20, 2018

“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”

        — Josh Billings

Thursday, April 19, 2018

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

        — Garth Brooks

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

“To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.”

        — Paul Ehrlich

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

“The shortest answer is doing.”

        — George Herbert

Monday, April 16, 2018

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

        — Unknown

Friday, April 13, 2018

“Don’t judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, April 12, 2018

“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”

        — Mark Twain

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.”

        — Samuel Butler

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

“I don’t understand how the people of Tunisia overthrew their government without me signing an e-petition or changing my Twitter avatar.”

        — Matt Bailey (@mattb811)

Monday, April 9, 2018

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

        — Michael Leunig

Friday, April 6, 2018

“When it comes to making a big change in your life, you have to want it more than you fear it.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, April 5, 2018

“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”

        — Po Bronson

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

        — Henri Louis Bergson

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

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

        — Aaron Sorkin

Monday, April 2, 2018

“Never let your past dictate who you are, but let it be a part of who you’ll become.”

        — Nick Portokalos

Friday, March 30, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Thursday, March 29, 2018

“Labour disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labour.”

        — Ulysses S. Grant

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

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

        — Confucius

Monday, March 26, 2018

“Everybody always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.”

        — Mark Twain

Friday, March 23, 2018

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

        — Tom Waits

Thursday, March 22, 2018

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”

        — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

        — Mencius

Monday, March 19, 2018

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

        — Mark Twain

Friday, March 16, 2018

“A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives.”

        — Proverb

Thursday, March 15, 2018

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

        — Ruth St. Denis

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

“Cleaning code does NOT take time. NOT cleaning code does take time.”

        — Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin)

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”

        — Louis D. Brandeis

Monday, March 12, 2018

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

        — Garrison Keillor

Friday, March 9, 2018

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

        — Jorge Luis Borges

Thursday, March 8, 2018

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

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)

Monday, March 5, 2018

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”

        — Reba McEntire

Friday, March 2, 2018

“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

Thursday, March 1, 2018

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

        — Roger Miller

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”

        — William Feather

Monday, February 26, 2018

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

        — Ray Bradbury

Friday, February 23, 2018

“Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”

        — Wilson Mizner

Thursday, February 22, 2018

“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

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

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

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

“Find love when you have time, and find time when you already found the one to love.”

        — Terry Pratchett

Monday, February 19, 2018

“UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.”

        — Doug Gwyn

Friday, February 16, 2018

“Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise.”

Thursday, February 15, 2018

“Dear coffee: we had a deal. I’d put you in my body, you would give me super powers. WTF happened?”

        — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

“Books are the closest thing to real magic I could ever find. How else could sheets of paper transport me to another world?”

        — Brian Rathbone (@BrianRathbone)

Monday, February 12, 2018

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

        — Mistinguett

Friday, February 9, 2018

“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.”

        — C. A. R. Hoare

Thursday, February 8, 2018

“Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.”

        — Mason Cooley

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”

        — Clifton Fadiman

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

“Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.”

        — Mason Cooley

Monday, February 5, 2018

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.”

        — Robert Zend

Friday, February 2, 2018

“When life shuts a door, open it again. It’s a door. That’s how they work.”

        — Unknown

Thursday, February 1, 2018

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

        — Joan Gussow

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

“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)

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

“Prejudices about what it means to be a person necessarily exclude those who are not bright on the stage of common action; those who do not welcome the glare of shining, blinding smiles, who do not lean closer to hear the roar and macramé of shouted words, who do not cut themselves and mould their flesh and spirit to fit the narrow human path, funnelling upward without looking back.”

        — Dawn Prince-Hughes, Songs of the Gorilla Nation

Monday, January 29, 2018

If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”

        — Epictetus

Friday, January 26, 2018

“In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn’t exists, so let’s not hope for one.”

        — Ze Frank, The Show, 18 Apr 2006

Thursday, January 25, 2018

“There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”

        — Ursula K. Le Guin

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

“One man’s constant is another man’s variable.”

        — Alan Perlis

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

        — Abigail Van Buren

Monday, January 22, 2018

“A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.”

Friday, January 19, 2018

“Moore’s Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.”

        — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Thursday, January 18, 2018

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

        — James Bryant Conant

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.”

        — Richard Hamming

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

        — Alex Carey

Monday, January 15, 2018

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

Thursday, January 11, 2018

“Perfect pitch is when you throw a banjo into a trash can and hit an accordion.”

        — Willie Nelson

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

“If you are using PowerPoint to even 25% of its potential, your presentation will probably suck.”

        — Karl Seguin, Goodbye Microsoft Office

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

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

        — Horace Greeley

Monday, January 8, 2018

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

        — Michel de Montaige

Friday, January 5, 2018

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

        — Unknown

Thursday, January 4, 2018

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

        — Will Smith

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

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

        — Billy Connolly

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”

        — Doug Gwyn

Monday, January 1, 2018

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

        — Unknown