Royce's "wise quotes" .sig fortune file - https://www.roycewilliams.net/fortune/signature-fortune.txt % Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian Kernighan % I remember reading at one point that having a song stuck in your head stimulates part of your lower brain, and that the dumber and simpler the song is, the more the lower part of your brain likes it. It's like having an inner moron. - klangklangston on metafilter % A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. - Steve McConnell % Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Abelson and Sussman % The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand. - Douglas W. Jones % Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things. - D. Gwyn % The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. - Douglas Englebart % For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman % The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman % Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery % You can't feel good about what you're not doing unless you know what it is that you're not doing. - David Allen % Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. - Vannevar Bush % Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. - Edward Gorey % The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. - Edsger Dijkstra % It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. - Steve McConnell % There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program. - Ed Yourdon % Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot % You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die. - Frank Herbert % An invention needs to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it was started. - Ray Kurzweil % You've got to be original - because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? - Bernadette Peters % Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. - Mencius % Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. - C. S. Lewis % I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. - Donald Knuth % No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. - Richard Feynman % Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. - Richard Feynman % My undertaking is not difficult, essentially ... I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. - Jorge Luis Borges % Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you. - Khalil Gibran % Freedom is always appealing until you are forced to try to put up with someone else's. - Miss Manners % When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller % I'm not doing this to change the world. I'm doing this so the world doesn't change me. - Mother Teresa % Before enlightenment I chopped wood and carried water; after enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water. - Zen saying % After realizing how to make the best of something bad, I could no longer stand watching people make the worst of something good. - erica % Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. - Bashō % Imitate the intent, not the brush strokes. - Kūkai, on calligraphy % After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board. - Gary Snyder % Capacity is only worth building when it'll be used in the service of stuff you really want. - Peter Walsh % No man can hear his telephone ring without wishing heartily that Alexander Graham Bell had been run over by an ice wagon at the age of four. - H. L. Mencken % It is better to solve the right problem the wrong way than to solve the wrong problem the right way. - Richard Hamming % The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead % If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact. - Itzhak Rabin % We go from room to room looking for the diamond necklace around our neck. - Rumi % But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. - Marge Piercy % Everyone knows a blind mapmaker will finish his work much faster on a motorcycle than he will on foot. - ShieldW0lf % Just because you can do something really well, does not mean you have to do it. - Kurt Vonnegut % An entrepreneur is someone who is more willing to fail at something that matters than to succeed at something that doesn't. - B.Bollenbach % The only thing wrong with being sensitive is trying to pretend that you are not. - Jenna Avery % If I have given you delight/ by aught that I have done,/ Let me lie quiet in that night/ which shall be yours anon. - Kipling, via Clarke % The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world. - Carl Sagan % Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. - Heraclitus % A big surprise is coming toward you. How clear do you want to be about all your current commitments, when it hits? - David Allen % Remember me is all I ask,/ And yet/ If the remembrance proves a task/ Forget - William Percy French % The only difference between children and the insane is pride of workmanship. - achewood % It's hard to have great weird ideas when your day is filled with closing trouble tickets. - Edward Vielmetti % It was easier to live with the mess than to experience the frustration of failing to create a perfect room. - Frost & Steketee % The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground. - Rinpoche % Kafka understood that the dice had been rolled, and that nothing could come between him and his writing, the day he spat blood for the first time. - Elias Canetti, via Roberto Bolaño % Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire % The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin % Good people with good process will outperform good people with no process every time. - Grady Booch % Calling yourself a C programmer is like saying you're a hammer carpenter who just uses a hammer. - phrakture % You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they're unable to work on hard problems at all. - Paul Graham % Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit. - Marguerite Yourcenar % Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Flaubert % As soon as you say, "failure is not an option," you've just said, "innovation is not an option." - Seth Godin % Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one. - Voltaire % Oftentimes people strive to be perfect just so they can "fail" and give up. - Robb Wolf % I am orderly out of a spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things. - Alexandre Dumas % I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee % How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world. - Anne Frank % Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. - Madeleine L'Engle % Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg % The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -Eliot % Beware of "the real world". A speaker's appeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. - Dijkstra % Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.-Shirky % When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - R. Buckminster Fuller % Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. - George Santayana % Climbing a mountain isn't easy, but it's impossible if you haven't found it. - Dan Rutter % Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. - Henry Hazlitt % Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George Eliot % If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. - Zen koan % I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E.B. White % Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. - Goethe % Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan % The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson % I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's centre of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity--to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same in the hours when one is inevitably alone. -Edith Wharton % The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin % Until we're honest with ourselves about what we're going to master, there's no chance we'll accomplish it. - Seth Godin % Getting upset about marketing speak is like getting upset about the finer points of pig Latin. - Christiana Ellis % In order to pull a rabbit out of a hat, it is necessary first to put one in. - Arnold DeLeon % Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris % Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. - Kahlil Gibran % We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. - William Hazlitt % Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. - Jon Postel % Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted. - Pasi Sahlberg % Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. - Eliphas Levi % Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name? - Mr. T % Asking for permission [from advertisers] is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. - Banksy % Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. - Ann Patchett % Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.-M.G. % The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. - S. Pressfield % I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it. - K. Stockett % To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. - Yann Martel % Being bored is a kind of diagnostic for the gap between what you might be interested in and your current environment. - Clay Shirky % Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution. - Clay Shirky % Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. - Clausewitz % A man must either resolve to put out nothing new or become a slave to defend it. - Isaac Newton % Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things. - Peter Drucker % The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. - William James % Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability, and that way you might change the world. - Eames % The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. - John F. Kennedy % I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow. -W.W. % It isn't the mountains to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe. - Muhammad Ali % That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens % I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.G % Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily. - Paul Coelho % Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more. - Merlin Mann % He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamposts --- for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang % The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.-McLuhan % An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. - John Tukey % Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations that we can perform without thinking about them. - Whitehead % Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs. - Bill Gates % Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. - Leonard Bernstein % If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw % The more aggressively you redefine the problem, the more likely it is you're going to solve it. - Seth Godin % There's art in each individual system, but there's a much greater art in the union of all the systems we create. - Dave Winer % ... in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter % I deliberately avoid calculating that number, because if you start measuring something you start optimizing it, and I know it's the wrong thing to optimize. - Paul Graham % If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem that you can't solve; find it. - George Polya % Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B.F. Skinner % If you feel disrespected, the person you disagree with is not going to be a useful partner in figuring out what the right path going forward might be. - Seth Godin % Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive. - Goethe % The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. - Glenn Gould % We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. - Jane Austen % The fundamental problem is that many products are created to be sold, not used. - Sori Yanagi % A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Camus % Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. - Walter Percy % When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving - Richard Stallman % The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it. - Pamela Zave % N+1 trivial tasks are expected to be accomplished in the same time as N trivial tasks. - Jim Gray % When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary to not make a decision. - Lord Falkland % Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. - Linus Pauling % You have to create the quiet to be able to listen to the very faint voice of your intuition. - Jon Favreau % ... we've been manipulated by those that would make their important into our urgent. -Seth Godin % The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. - Carl Jung % Death is the lowest price evolution could find in exchange for complexity. - Graham Templeton % A 'boring person' is just someone lacking the courage to be sufficiently weird with themselves. - Alain De Botton % By far the best way to prevent a tug-of-war is to not pick up your end of the rope. - Don Lancaster % Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. - Seneca % Some projects can only be done so slowly. If you send up a rocket at half of escape velocity, it's not going to take twice as long to get where you want it to go. It's going to take infinitely longer. -J.Cook % Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. -Peter Drucker % Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Schopenhauer % Indeed, it seems that the phrase "national security" is now the root password to the Constitution. And as with any dishonest superuser, the best user countermeasure is strong encryption. -Phil Karn % Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.-R. Dawkins % Don't experiment when you should think; don't think when you should experiment. -Jon Bentley % Assume that bad technical decisions are made rationally, for reasons that are not apparent. -Mark Dominus % Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. - Goethe % The amount of energy necessary to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.-Alberto Brandolini % But the name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom. - Ursula K. Le Guin % There are lots of people who want you to be secure against everyone but them. - Whitfield Diffie % You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? -- Terry Pratchett % Usability testing doesn't reveal problems in your product so much as it uncovers arrogance in your thinking. - Jeffery Zeldman % As a side effect of packing 64 bits of password into 11 six-bit characters, the final character is always one of [.26AEIMQUYcgkosw]. -kwzh % I need communication that is technically brutal but personally respectful. - Sarah Sharp % You don't really understand something if you only understand it one way. -Marvin Minsky % Civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. - F. A. Hayek % You know what's slow? Spending all day trying to figure out why it doesn't work. That's the slowest thing I know. - Paul Phillips % If there's an emergency and no one else is fixing it, you're in charge. - Susan Sons % A principle is something you hold to even when it goes against you. What you have isn't a principle, it's a rationalization. % Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - Frank Herbert % Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past. -Richard Hamming % You can become a genius by circumstance. Becoming a master takes work. - John Scalzi % Don't be trapped into accepting shame from someone who is trying to keep you from doing something you have every right to do. - Seth Godin % I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen Jay Gould % If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a team. - African proverb % There's a great danger in being a Goliath who thinks they're a David. - Anand Giridharadas % If it matters enough to be careful, it matters enough to build a system around it. - Seth Godin % Even if you’re not sure of where it will lead, today’s the day to begin. - Seth Godin % The alertness of calmness is correct; the alertness of deluded thoughts is wrong. The calmness of alertness is correct; the calmness of blankness is wrong. - Yung-Chia % It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift % "It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible. - Epictetus % Civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary. - Venkat Rao % Don't get caught doing less than you need to but more than you want to - Seth Godin % Find someone who has already optimized for the reality you’re about to enter and learn from them. -Seth Godin % The set of rules for information flows imposed by technology and communication networks form a ‘Lex Informatica’ that policymakers must understand, consciously recognize, and encourage. - Joel Reidenberg % Evil comes from denying reality. Period. [...] You have to distort reality to rationalize evil acts. - Mary Gaitskill % No one knows everything, and you don't have to. Aim for rough water. Forgive yourself for wasting time. Learn the history of science. - Steven Weinberg (Nature, 2003) % If you’re not willing to make it fuzzy, it might be better to not say it. Seth Godin % Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -John Adams % A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. - Greek proverb % The only secret of magic is that I’m willing to work harder on it than you think it’s worth. - Penn Jillette % If someone is entrusted with the root password, they have not just the right but the responsibility to use it when necessary. - Brooks % The steering wheel is Wonder Woman's golden lasso of truth - Jon Billman % How do you know you're not in heaven and just screwing it up? - Simon Lamb % If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading. - Lao Tzu % We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. - Confucius % Only when you do not know yourself, the opinion of other people becomes important. - Sadhguru % The primary emotion behind rage is hope. The hope that traffic won't be gridlocked. - unknown % Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. - Colin Powell % In my 27 years of sailing, fear is only produced by the lack of knowledge or not knowing. To get knowledge you will have to face your fear. - Erik Aanderaa % 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZYXVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA9876543210 % The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright % A prudent question is one half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon % Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare % If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. - Tom Peters % A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery % Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. - Eric Raymond % Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley % Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - GKC % The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Pauling % A problem well stated is a problem half solved. - Kettering % We don't have time to stop for gas, we're already late. - Cleron % Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - da Vinci % Question authority; but, raise your hand first. - Alan Dershowitz % CS is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -EWD % Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. - Edsger Dijkstra % Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence. -EWD % Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Einstein % What I cannot create, I do not understand. - Richard Feynman % Never put off until run time what can be done at compile time. -Glew % The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. - Richard Hamming % The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant. - Heller % Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. - Hoare % Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce % Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -RK % 80% of IT projects fail for non-technical reasons. - McConnell % Computers are useless. They only give you answers. - Picasso % The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. - P % If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.NS % It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. - Syrus % The best is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire % If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. % Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H.H. Williams % The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. - Wittgenstein % If you have too many special cases, you are doing it wrong. -Zerouni % Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -Kernighan % The fastest I/O is no I/O. - Nils-Peter Nelson % I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.-Jefferson % A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. - H.H. Munro % The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the vendor not one. - George Herbert % Expert Users: people who break other people's computers. - from Jargon % Everything is a system. - Donella Meadows % Learn from carpenters: measure twice, cut once. - Limoncelli & Hogan % Nothing is permanent, and nothing is temporary. - Williams % You can do anything, but you can't do everything. - David Allen % The delete key is your friend. - Merlin Mann % Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love. - Aristotle % Program Optimization Rule #1: Don't do it. #2: Don't do it yet. - MAJ % All problems in CS can be solved by another level of indirection. - BL % You're bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything. - Donald Knuth % There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works. % Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. - W. Edwards Deming % Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight Eisenhower % Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Einstein % First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. - John Johnson % The trouble with computers is that you *play* with them! - Feynman % Computers aren't self aware; but neither are we. - paraphrased Minksy % Perfection in design: when you have nothing more to take away. ~A.dS-E % Memory is necessary for all the operations of reason. - Blaise Pascal % The prisoner falls in love with his chains. - Edsger W. Dijkstra % Some problems are better evaded than solved. - C.A.R. Hoare % Don't make the user provide information the system already knows. - ? % You can never tell what a programmer is doing 'til it's too late ~Cray % Take the time to find the correct solution. - Steve Maguire % Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. - Brooks % Good design adds value faster than it adds cost. - Thomas C. Gale % Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. - Churchill % I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Twain % Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu % Do only what only you can do. - Edsger Dijkstra % There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus % Never allow the same bug to bite you twice. - Steve Maguire % Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible. % Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do.-? % A program is never < 90% complete, and never > 95% complete. - Baker % Successful software always gets changed. - Frederick P. Brooks % The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay % Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan % Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. - Blaise Pascal % Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain % If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. - Twain % There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. - Mark Twain % Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. - Nathaniel Emmons % I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov % Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak % It has yet to be proven that intelligence has survival value. - Clarke % Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides % Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson % Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. - Horace % The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates % The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -W.James % We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.EH % In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.-LP % Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. - Margaret Mead % The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. - Salk % The life so short, the craft so long to learn. - Hippocrates % To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. - Hippocrates % Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe % Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.~RAH % The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. - PE % Learn what is true in order to do what is right. - Thomas Huxley % The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. -Chanel % A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. - Austin O'Malley % It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. - Freeman Dyson % There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. - Bohr % What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. -C.S. Lewis % Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify. - Thoreau % The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. - Kurt Vonnegut % A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ~ Dahl % Don't fight forces, use them. - R. Buckminster Fuller % We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. -Fuller % Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - Edison % I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.-Edison % You affect the world by what you browse. - Tim Berners-Lee % That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means. - Camus % It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer. - Occam % To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. -W. James % Great acts are made up of small deeds. - Santayana % Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - John Dewey % We only think when we are confronted with problems. - John Dewey % If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle % Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.-S.Wright % I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - Steven Wright % When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. - Steven Wright % How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand. -Phillips % I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. - Emo Philips % Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. - Euripides % Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.-ED % I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. -Poe % He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. -Thomas % The secret of getting things done is to act! - Dante Alighieri % Nothing can be done except little by little. - Charles Baudelaire % Never find fault with the absent. - Alexander Pope % A good indignation brings out all one's powers. - Emerson % Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Emerson % The ancestor of every action is a thought. - Emerson % The reward of a thing well done is having done it. - Emerson % Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. - Khalil Gibran % Reality is not always probable, or likely. - Jorge Luis Borges % In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. - Horace % Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine % You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at. - W. H. Auden % What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. -Roethke % Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. - T.S. Eliot % Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? -T.S. Eliot % It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. - Sophocles % Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. - Samuel Butler % I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost % Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. - Robert Frost % A minute's success pays the failure of years. - Robert Browning % If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.-Harry Banks % Why would you want more than one machine language? - von Neumann % He wept and was nothing content, but it booted not. - Mancini, c.1483 % The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.-Carmack % A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Einstein % If your code isn't worth documenting then it isn't worth keeping. - JN % We have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible.-L.Wall % All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. - Nietzsche % A soft answer turneth away wrath. - Proverbs 15:1, via Byron Kohfield % We are interested in others when they are interested in us. - Syrus % Liberate activity out of your inbox. - Merlin Mann % We are what we repeatedly do. - Aristotle, via Will Durant % Go that way - really fast. If something gets in your way, turn. - CdM % Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. - Isaac Asimov % A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Rodin % The years teach much which the days never knew. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette % Let him who would move the world first move himself. - Socrates % It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - TH % Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.BF % Err and err and err again but less and less and less. - Piet Hein % What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. -Emerson % I'm not dumb. I just have a command of throughly useless information.C % The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli % Discipline is remembering what you want. - David Campbell % You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt % Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. - Plutarch % A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon % I sell biscuits and gravy all over the Southland. - Martin Blank % Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. - Ayn Rand % Intellectual honesty is the only tool required. - Ayn Rand % Your software is revolutionary! I like that! - Fidel Castro (HHGttG) % When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. - Will Rogers % Disorientation is the best context for reorientation. - J. Eliasen % Repeating or rephrasing your position doesn't make it true. % Just relax and observe the monkey until it wears itself out. - Pavlina % Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing! - Paul Graham % Thinking is for doing. - Susan Fiske, paraphrasing William James % Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. -FdLR % Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. - Mann % ... do it or do not do it - you will regret both. - Søren Kierkegaard % Accept the truth from whatever source it comes. - Maimonides % There are so many things to think. - Stephanie Bauer % I don't need fake problems that come in a box. - Steven Wright % Action expresses priorities. - Gandhi % Be curious, not judgmental. - Walt Whitman % That'd be the "hardware turbo-charged lipstick on a pig" option. - MJR % Neither blame nor indulge yourself. - William Styron % Life is the light that shines in the darkness. - Hayao Miyazaki % You learn something again every day. - Stephanie Bauer % Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.-Piet Hein % Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux % Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument. - Zachariah Tutu % ... so don't waste time living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs % Your mind doesn't have one. - David Allen % Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. - S. Johnson % Only you can be yourself. No one else is qualified for the job. - ? % How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. - Eric Hoffer % Make no decision out of fear. - Bruce Sterling % The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take. - R.C. % When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson % 1st step in fixing a broken program: getting it to fail repeatably. TD % Electricity travels a foot in a nanosecond. - Commodore Grace Hopper % Make it work first before you make it work fast. - Bruce Whiteside % It's never too late to have a happy childhood. - Tom Robbins % Work isn't a place you go; it's something you do. - Polly LaBarre % It's easy to fall off the GTD wagon. It's easy to get back on.-D.Allen % If I hadn't believed it, I wouldn't have seen it. - Yogi Berra % Action is the antidote to despair. - Joan Baez % Flexible people don't get bent out of shape. - unknown % It is a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.-DC % It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.-S.Kempton % Success is never forever and failure isn't fatal. - Don Shula % Ignorant person: one who doesn't know what you have just found out.~WW % Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers % A mind too active is no mind at all. - Theodore Roethke % Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke % Acting: the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.~RR % Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. - J.Renard % I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner % The perfection of art is to conceal art. - Quintilian % A finished person is a boring person. - Anna Quindlen % Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. - Pyrrhus % How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. - Publilius Syrus % It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.-Syrus % 'Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. - Publilius Syrus % Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus % Many receive advice, few profit by it. - Publilius Syrus % To do two things at once is to do neither. - Publilius Syrus % You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.-B.Prudden % Bad news goes about in clogs, good news in stockinged feet.-Welsh pvrb % Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees. - Swedish proverb % What may be done at any time will be done at no time. - Scottish pvrb % What may be done by anyone will be done by no one.~RDW/Scottish pvrb % A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. - Polish proverb % If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin proverb % By learning to obey, you will know how to command. - Italian proverb % He who begins many things finishes but few. - Italian proverb % It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. -Irish pvb % He that promises most will perform least. - Gaelic proverb % A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb % A stumble may prevent a fall. - English proverb % When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. - Czech proverb % Dig the well before you are thirsty. - Chinese proverb % Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.Chn pvb % The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we do. ~J.P. % Literature is news that stays news. - Ezra Pound % I do not suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it. - E. A. Poe % To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. - Plutarch % Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us. - Plotinus % No man is wise enough by himself. - Titus Maccius Plautus % Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato % What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. -MP % Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso % Wear the old coat and buy the new book. - Austin Phelps % There is danger in both belief and unbelief. - Phaedrus % To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -Pearce % Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - N.V. Peale % If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.-Peale % My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur % Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. - Boris Pasternak % A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. - Dorothy Parker % Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. -AP % We just had a near-life experience! - Chuck Palahniuk % Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. -Satchel Paige % Nothing is stronger than habit. - Ovid % To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.Orwell % Never fight an inanimate object. - P. J. O'Rourke % The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.-FO'C % Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.-Nietzsche % Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neill % It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. - Dr. Howard Murphy % You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - Morley % Success only hurts the first time. - Randy K. Milholland % If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. - W. McFee % The future is no place to place your better days. - Dave Matthews % Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.-JPR % There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with artlessness. % He who aims to keep abreast is for ever second best. - Piet Hein % Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. - Piet Hein % Those who always know what's best are a universal pest. - Piet Hein % Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. - Ogden Nash % One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. - Ogden Nash % Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.-ON % Time is like the ocean: always there, always different. - Ogden Nash % We are asleep with compasses in our hands. - W. S. Merwin % Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W. H. Auden % Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised. - Syrus % If you don't fail >= 90% of the time, you're not aiming high enough.AK % Words are good servants but bad masters. - Aldous Huxley % Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.-Buckminster Fuller % Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay. - Roethke % Weed: a plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. - Emerson % Always do what you are afraid to do. - Emerson % In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Emerson % A foolish consistency is the hob-goblin of little minds. - Emerson % All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. - Emerson % The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.-E % But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. - Jefferson % Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. - Jefferson % The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. - Nietzche % My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing. -WJ % And don't look back - something might be gaining on you.-Satchel Paige % When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? - Larry Wall % No matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger. - Sagan % Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan % If the world were clear, art would not exist. - Camus % The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4. - Camus % Ah, savory cheese puffs, made inedible by time and fate. - The Tick % Heh, heh. Those darn ninjas. They're wacky. - The Tick % I hate broccoli, and yet, in a certain sense, I am broccoli. -The Tick % I weave a lethal net of baked goods that few can escape. -Paul Samurai % It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. - Churchill % Give us the tools and we will finish the job. - Winston Churchill % ... who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it. - CB % It is by universal misunderstanding that we agree with each other. -CB % One can only forget about time by making use of it. - Baudelaire % To see something in the small and to see something in the large.-Knuth % A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. - GH % Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides % Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. - Richard Feynman % Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Mark Twain % It is easier to stay out than to get out. - Mark Twain % The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - Twain % Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Mark Twain % The original is unfaithful to the translation. - Borges % Yet none of you can tell where it pinches me. - Plutarch % It takes an unusual mind to see the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead % A good man may suffer until his goodness flowers. - the Dhammapada % We're all in this together. - Red Green % Even Dorothy thought differently when she peered behind the curtain.BE % Then we shall have to do without hope. - Tolkien, via Aragorn % If you want to work on your art, work on your life. - Chekhov % If there is a universal mind, must it be sane? - C. Fort (attrib) % True life is lived when tiny changes occur. - Leo Tolstoy % What is unsought will go undetected. - Sophocles % In a dark time, the eye begins to see. - Theodore Roethke % The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. - Auden % It is because we do not dare that [things] are difficult. - Seneca % When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. -W.Baziotes % Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Spinoza % The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.-Wilde % The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Picasso % Make the right thing the easy thing. - Jeff Veen % Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. -CNP % It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. - G. K. Chesterton % The plural of anecdote is not data. - Frank Kotsonis % Information is the currency of democracy. - Thomas Jefferson % People get annoyed when you try to debug them. - Larry Wall % When trouble is solved before it forms, who calls that clever?-Sun Tzu % Good engineering doesn't consist of random acts of heroism.-H.Robinson % Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. - William Shakespeare % If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. -K. Lewin % Quality has to be caused, not controlled. - Philip Crosby % The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. - B.S. % Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.CH % Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. -Nicklaus Wirth % Java is the SUV of programming tools. - Philip Greenspun % One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths. - YT % A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. -Herbert Simon % The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.-BFS % Write programs that do one thing and do it well. - Doug McIlroy % Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. -Rob Pike % Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.S % Do the things that others don't, won't, or can't. - Steve Pavlina % The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -A.Adler % We are here to help each other through this thing, whatever it is. -KV % If you can't play to win, play to learn. ~ Steve Pavlina % Never put in a mail message anything you would not put on a postcard.H % Email overhead should not be more than the value of the message. ~F.W. % The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. -H. Kissinger % One does not grow older at the table. - Italian proverb % Stop letting your email poke you with a stick. - Merlin Mann % Information is not knowledge. - Albert Einstein % The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.ET % Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. - Chuang Tzu % Socializing is about exchanging energy. - Brad Bollenbach % Do not rely on following the .. understanding you have discovered.- YT % If you can understand one affair, you can understand eight. - YJ % It's a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.SR % This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top. - Lula Fortune % There are many things in the world, and you are one of them. - RPW % A human being is a deciding being. - Viktor Frankl % Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as [..] pushed by drives.EF % What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl % He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. - Nietzsche % Between stimulus and response, there is a space. - Viktor Frankl % His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.VF % There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.WC % We need to be the change we wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi % Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.-Robert Gallagher % The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. - David Ogilvy % Don't estimate how long it will take until you know what it is. - SM % Think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll. - YT % All professions should be done with concentration. - YT % Say after me: It's no better to be safe than sorry. - a-ha % I am opposed to people being programmed by others. - Fred Rogers % Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. -FR % Oh hi, Trolley. Is it time to go back to reality now? - Mr. Rogers % It takes a very strong person to be able to turn off scary TV F.Rogers % I know, but I want to look like a tiger. - Daniel Striped Tiger % I have canceled all meetings today. - King Friday XIII % Anything worthwhile certainly takes a while. - Mr. Rogers % Attitudes are caught, not taught. - Mr. Rogers % All of us, at some time or other, need help. - Mr. Rogers % Feelings are mentionable and manageable. - Fred Rogers % Good work can make good changes and can give a good feeling. -F.Rogers % Hi, neighbor. How're you doing? - Mr. Rogers % Even if it's disappointing, it's still better to know the truth. -F.R. % Well, who hasn't made mistakes in his work? - Mr. Rogers % Your neighbor is anyone you happen to be with. - Mr. Rogers % It is not in the world. It is from Planet Purple. - Purple Panda % Let's have some cookies and put the whole thing aside. - X the Owl % You learn something old every day. - X the Owl % Disks have become tapes. - David DeWitt % Protocols with few options tend towards ubiquity. - RFC 2821 % Protocols with many options tend towards obscurity. - RFC 2821 % The future is no more uncertain than the present. - Walt Whitman % If you're not allowed to implement new ideas, you stop having them.-PG % The only solution is to make the right things urgent. - Seth Godin % There are deep wells of strength that are never used. - Richard Byrd % We not only have to survive, we have to deserve to survive.Joss Whedon % The story creates the work and the work creates the story. -Seth Godin % If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. - T.S Eliot % He who cannot draw on 3,000 years is living hand to mouth. - Goethe % A person hears only what they understand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Goethe % Doubt grows with knowledge. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % Few people have the imagination for reality. - Goethe % Investigate what is, and not what pleases. - Goethe % One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.JWvG % Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. - Goethe % To study and not think is waste. To think and not study is dangerous.C % To entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness. - Confucius % ... borne back ceaselessly into the past. -F. Scott Fitzgerald % There will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.E % And should I then presume? And how should I begin? - T. S. Eliot % Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow. - T. S. Eliot % Between the essence/ And the descent/ Falls the Shadow. - T. S. Eliot % Men tighten the knot of confusion/Into perfect misunderstanding.-Eliot % It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. - T. S. Eliot % All cases are unique, and very similar to others. - T. S. Eliot % Disillusion can become itself an illusion/ If we rest in it.-T.S.Eliot % Neither way is better./ Both ways are necessary. - T. S. Eliot % Dar'st thou amid the varied/ To live alone, an isolated thing?-Shelley % Fear not the future, weep not for the past. - Shelley % I have drunken deep of joy, and I will taste no other wine tonight. -S % There is no sport in hate where all the rage/ Is on one side. -Shelley % And yet I pity those they torture not. - Percy Bysshe Shelley % Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. - S. % Man is free at the instant he wants to be. - Voltaire % There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.Voltaire % Let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly. - Voltaire % It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good. - HK % Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off. -RB % Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.-Khalil Gibran % I object to intellect without discipline. - Spock % I object to power without constructive purpose. - Spock % Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal. - Spock % Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here. - Spock % I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day! - Dr. McCoy % Evil usually triumphs...unless good is very, very careful. - Dr. McCoy % All is as it was before. - The Guardian of Forever % I know not what tomorrow will bring. - Fernando Pessoa % I believe we should adjourn this meeting to another place. -Adam Smith % What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?-Gertrude Stein % Everyday tasks should be boring. - Donald A. Norman % Who ever washes a rental car? - Warren Buffett % Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. - Pablo Picasso % Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. -La Rochefoucauld % Dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. -LN % All the world's a hospital, and you're either a patient or a nurse.TSE % He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. - B.F. % Much learning does not teach understanding. - Heraclitus % Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. - Will Rogers % Money often costs too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % On a network full of scientists, the cost of error is bandwidth. -BH % We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.-JFK % The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. - S. Sondheim % Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. - Ovid % Easy to use is hard to do. - Clifford Nass % In saying what I have in mind, will I really improve on silence? - RG % No matter how cynical you are, you can't keep up. - Woody Allen % I quote others only in order to better express myself. - Montaigne % The way up and the way down are one and the same. - Heraclitus % You never know when you're making a memory. - Rickie Lee Jones % The wise learn many things from their foes. - Aristophanes % Unfortunately, much of what is important in life is not entertaining.P % It is a luxury to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Surplus longing is good for sharpening existential dread.~via Vitzthum % If you do not love too much, you do not love enough. - Blaise Pascal % Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. -B. F. Skinner % Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali % Action should culminate in wisdom. - Bhagavad Gita % Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. - Ani DiFranco % Time is the only coin of your life. - Carl Sandburg % Nothing can be created from nothing. - Lucretius % He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.G % Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire % Fool's prerogative: to utter truths that no one else will speak. - NG % Victory can be discerned, but not manufactured. - Sun Tzu % What would you choose, if you'd never seen an advertisement? % Go where the silence is and say something. - Amy Goodman % The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller % You miss 100% of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretsky % Our theories determine what we measure. - Albert Einstein % I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything.-Lloyd % Mistakes are part of the music. - Miles Davis % If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water-B.Pvb % The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell % A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. % I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.-TE % Bewilderment is the wilderness of the spirit. - Stig Hackvan % A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. - Victor Hugo % People in the West are always getting ready to live. - Chinese proverb % The mind must be made to stop running like a wristwatch. -Colin Wilson % I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth. - Chuck Palahniuk % Reason lies between the bridle and the spur. - Italian proverb % Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. - Jonathan Swift % All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them. - R.C. % Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde % The moon is brighter since the barn burned. - Basho % Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons? % My solitude shall be my company and my poverty, my wealth. - Basho % When observed calmly, all things have their fulfillment. - Basho % Thorns spring up when an army passes. - Lao Tzu % Who regards himself as the world may accept the world. - Lao Tzu % How can I understand the source of the world? By accepting. - Lao Tzu % How can one live with the world? By accepting. - Lao Tzu % If both would serve their interests, both must submit. - Lao Tzu % Deal with the great while it is yet small. - Lao Tzu % Create order before there is confusion. - Lao Tzu % Honest people use no rhetoric; rhetoric is not honesty. - Lao Tzu % Keep tools in abundance, but do not depend upon them. - Lao Tzu % Nature is impartial; therefore it serves those who serve all. -Lao Tzu % When the student is ready, the teacher appears. - Japanese proverb % Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Zen saying % To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Chuang Tzu % It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. - Muso Kokushi % When you get there, there isn't any there there. - Gertrude Stein % Water which is too pure has no fish. - Ts'ai Ken T'an % Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise. - Alan Watts % Men argue, nature acts. - Voltaire % There is time. There are returns. To go is to return. - Ursula Le Guin % Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die. - Basho % The thief/ Left it behind -/ The moon at the window. - Ryokan % The sound of the water says what I think. - Chuang Tzu % I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. - G. Stein % If you can do it then why do it? - Gertrude Stein % Money is always there but the pockets change. - Gertrude Stein % We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein % How can we go on reading and make sense out of what we read? -Rukeyser % We, from that time, we are not the same. - Pablo Neruda % Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.-G. Brooks % Future, who won't wait for you? Everyone is going there. - Rilke % I came into this world laughing like one who had wept enough.-M.Ruefle % Silence is not snow. It cannot grow deeper. - Kay Ryan % The passage of a life should show; it should abrade. - Kay Ryan % The only way to make art is to forget what is unimportant.-Miles Davis % I learn by going where I have to go. - Theodore Roethke % What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? - T. R. % People just imagine their minds are hard. - Shih-wu % The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. -Wilde, via Willy Wonka % So shines a good deed in a weary world. - Willy Wonka % We needs must love the highest when we see it. - Tennyson % Universalism is beautiful, and so are particulars. -Marilynne Robinson % Everything in your home is there with your permission. - Peter Walsh % Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. - R. Hamming % It is a poor workman who blames his tools. - unknown % I either had to change my goal or change what I did. - Richard Hamming % The value is in the struggle more than it is in the result. -R.Hamming % The appearance of conforming gets you a long way. - Richard Hamming % Beware of finding what you're looking for. - Richard Hamming % UNIX was never a deliverable. - a Bell Labs VP, via Richard Hamming % If you want a new idea, you have to silence your inner critic.- R.B. % Roll up your hoses when you're not fighting fires. - Kelly Forrister % I'm still puzzled by the social relationships of the cheese. -S. Bauer % When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found. - John McCarthy % Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. -Aesop % It's hard to look smart with bad numbers. - Chuck Exley % Does the world make sense or do we make sense of the world? - C.Shirky % Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. -J.Z. % We need to be the change we wish to see in ourselves. - Royce Williams % It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.-Spoon boy, Matrix % Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - A.S. % The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain % Make big promises; overdeliver. Connect like-minded people.-Seth Godin % Distracting is ... desirable at the wrong time. - Paul Graham % People who live realistically are not happy. - ? % She thought to herself, "This is now". - Laura Ingalls Wilder % It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. - Oprah Winfrey % We know more than we can tell. - Michael Polanyi % What are the most interesting problems in your field? -Richard Hamming % At least they're doing *something*. - Clay Shirky % A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. - Clay Shirky % We're looking for the mouse. - Clay Shirky % What are you hoping to dream about? - S. L. Bauer % If he had stood still, there would have been no footprints.-Chuang Tzu % Please send non-work-related email to my personal email address. % Lots of people downtown look like they're in disguise. - Merlin Mann % Don't eat the manual in frustration. It's your only friend.- S. King % Only the educated are free. - Epictetus % No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett % Simply living frees you to simply live. - Erin Dolan % They had irreconcilable similarities. - S. L. Bauer % One must edge forward like the inchworm, bit by bit. - YAMAMOTO T. % It is a matter of having the will to shoulder the clan by oneself. -YT % If the rest of you want to be at ease, fall quickly! - YAMAMOTO T. % I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. - A. Lincoln % Pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself. -JC % Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. - George Box % The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - W. Gibson % Know what to do; learn the skills; remove the blocks. - unknown % We are more given to talking about things than to doing them. - Nehru % Do I want to? Do I know how? Do I have the capacity? ~ Ken McLeod % We return to what is already there. - Ken McLeod % The moment we notice, we are no longer distracted. - Ken McLeod % For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. -Eliot % Don't recall, imagine, think, examine, control. Rest. ~ Tilopa % It is not at all simple to understand the simple. - Eric Hoffer % We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. - Eric Hoffer % To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. -Eric Hoffer % I am the only mirror you're ever gonna need. - Bernie Lootz % Never assume conspiracy when you can assume incompetence.-Edward Tufte % Dance close to the revenue line. - Julie Morgenstern % There were just as many apples as before. - David Johnson % Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss % Shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. - Alexander Pope % I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein % What would you do if you knew you could not fail? - Robert H. Schuller % When there's an elephant in the room, introduce them. - Randy Pausch % You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking. - FC % Remake how we got to where we are. - Zay Tonday % We are the ones we've been waiting for. - the Hopi Elders Oraibi % Carving out time to initiate is more important than ever. - Seth Godin % You may have been closer to it than you thought. - Harold Blatz % Take me to the Baskin-Robbins in the McFarland Mall. - Bamaland % And loved the sorrows of your changing face. - W. B. Yeats % Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed. - Johnson % I need to $FOO because I want to $BAR. - Merlin Mann % Lack of clarity ... is one of the surest signs of a deficiency.- Hoare % Simple=obviously no deficiencies. Complicated=no obvious deficiencies. % Oh, let us never, never doubt/What nobody is sure about.Hilaire Belloc % Their clothes have no Emperor. - C. A. R. Hoare % You can't sell a product without first making people feel bad. - Roger % What makes life dreary is the want of motive. - George Eliot % Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire % Your attention needs a defender. - Merlin Mann % Free your mind, and the rest will follow. - En Vogue % The pain now is part of the happiness then. - William Nicholson % What you have doesn't make you unhappy. What you want does. - S. Godin % To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. - Kahlil Gibran % One person can make a difference and every person should try. - JFK % Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? % We should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.-Schneier % The vendor warned me that you couldn't be objective. - PHB (Dilbert) % Success is going from failure to failure without a lack of enthusiasm. % The way of nature rules by allowing things to take their course.LaoTzu % When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. - Tom Robbins % How many lightbulbs does it take to change a person? % I think you know I'm serious. - Ben Sanderson % And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue. - K. Gibran % And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. -Kahlil Gibran % And when his work was done he laughed in the forest. - Kahlil Gibran % But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.-K.Gibran % Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.-Kahlil Gibran % For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.-K.Gibran % If this be vague words, then seek not to clear them. - Kahlil Gibran % Much of your pain is self-chosen. - Kahlil Gibran % Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced. - K.Gibran % Say not "I have found the truth," but rather "I have found a truth."KG % They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws-K.Gibran % Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. - Kahlil Gibran % Verily you often make merry without knowing. - Kahlil Gibran % Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. - Kahlil Gibran % You are also as strong as your strongest link. - Kahlil Gibran % You are the way and the wayfarers. - Kahlil Gibran % If you put 'Sincerely' in your email signature, it's not. % Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. - J.F.K. % You can't help nobody if you can't tell 'em the right story.-Jack Cash % You can't bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. - WJHB % You can't establish sound security on borrowed money. - WJHB % You can't further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.WJHB % You can't keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. - WJHB % Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. - Rousseau % Each object has a path before you bought it. - Christine % The pace [...] seems to preclude such a contemplative stance.-EFKeller % The process of tying two items together is the important thing.-V.Bush % We are being bogged down today as specialization extends.-V.Bush, 1945 % For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute. - Vannevar Bush % The world of work is becoming our entire world. - Josef Pieper % Leisure is the disposition of receptive understanding. - Josef Pieper % The truth presents itself as a landscape presents itself to the eye.JP % What about intellectus? - David Levy % When fast and slow time meet, fast time wins. - Thomas Eriksen % The tortoise won. - Daniel Pink % I want to invite this so-called chaos that you'd think I dare not be-M % These precious illusions in my head did not let me down. -A.Morissette % Our data shadows can live a perfectly normal life without us.-Schneier % Why didn't you say something instead of all that meowing? - umamichan % Shut off anything that's noisier than it is useful. -Merlin Mann % Stop carrying the boat once you've crossed the river. -Buddhist saying % A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.J % You can stretch a rubber band for a long time. But then it breaks. -SG % The inefficiency of information flow wasn't a bug; it was a feature.CS % Small groups defend themselves against free riders; big groups don't.S % What filter just broke? - Clay Shirky % The genuine expression of any intention is beauty. - Josh Buesseler % Fortune always leaves some door open in misfortune. - Cervantes % ... everybody drinks water. - Mark Twain % there are no sweeter words than this. nothing lasts forever. -j.comeau % Keep your sentences simple, not your thoughts. - Francesco Marciuliano % What they really want is for people to join *their* cargo cult. - mjd % Yet biographers pretend they know people. - Virginia Woolf % Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! - Shelley % We do not have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body. - C.S. Lewis % What does this remind you of? - Seth Godin % There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills % How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning? -E.D. % We always choose it for itself. - Aristotle % Surely a thief will come and steal them. - David Johnson % When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. - Walt Kelly % A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan % Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. - da Vinci % Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. - Emmet Fox % Give me your 20 most important questions. - Jim Gray % He that can have patience, can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin % Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers % Ideas are great arrows. Politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers % We are all visitors -- even when we are home. - Jeffrey Lockwood % Sustainable practices navigate successfully through time and space.-BS % The sustainable is about the every day. - Bruce Sterling % Forget the shiny gadget. You need to look in the shiny mirror.Sterling % Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. - Thoreau % The principle object is [.] that corporations may be enriched.-Thoreau % No dust gathers on the grass. - Thoreau % But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. - Thoreau % It is simple to make things. It is hard to make things simple. - W.A. % The past is a kind of future that has already happened.-Bruce Sterling % Freedom of expression is guaranteed - if you've got the money.-B.Hicks % Get in touch with your outer adult. - Bill Hicks % You are free ... to do as we tell you. - Bill Hicks % It's Sane Man - here to protect common sense with logic. - Bill Hicks % ... or you do want [your Grandma] to meet Chuck Norris? - Bill Hicks % Wait a minute! There's one guy holding up both puppets! - Bill Hicks % Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - G.S. % ... who stared at me like a dog who'd just been showed a card trick.BH % The Internet isn't full, but we are. - Seth Godin % It's hard to be religious when certain people never get incinerated.BW % Time held me green and dying/ Though I sang in my chains like the sea. % I am now familiar in strange places. - unknown % The heart is a living museum. - Diane Ackerman % Not every aspect of your life needs your attention every week.-Pavlina % What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery % The pitcher cries for water to carry. - Marge Piercy % If all time is eternally present/ All time is unredeemable.-T.S. Eliot % You're going to get over it someday; you may as well start now. % What you believed to be the remedy, tomorrow will be poison. - Roudaki % Joy is not in things; it is in us. - Benjamin Franklin % Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.-Eva Zeisel % News of Borges reaches me through the mail. - Borges % We must build as if the sand were stone. - Borges % ... impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past. - Borges % A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist.Borges % The time for your labor has been granted. - Borges % The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. - Borges % We do not know what kind of thing the universe is. - Borges % If not now, when? - Hillel % The world is full of insurmountable opportunities. - Yogi Berra % A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka % Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. - Emerson % I decided to accept as true my own thinking. - Georgia O'Keeffe % Remarkable is a choice. - Seth Godin % I know all sorts of things that I don't believe. - Joey Comeau % A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. - Martin Luther King, Jr. % If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.S % Always make new mistakes. - Esther Dyson % Practice makes perfect - but what are you practicing? - Mike Hawes % When in doubt, overwhelm a small niche. - Seth Godin % The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski % Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. - Larry Wall % Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir! - Chef Gormaanda % Look at something that seems like a good idea and assume it's true.-BJ % Perhaps the easy way is the hardest way, at first. - David Allen % You don't have to like change to take advantage of it. - Seth Godin % I walked right out of the machinery. - Peter Gabriel % Every form of refuge has its price. - Henley/Frey % If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. - Clint Eastwood % My oh my, you sure know how to arrange things. - Henley/Frey % If that's movin' up, then I'm movin' out. - Billy Joel % It's not what you're doing that matters; it's whether or not it works. % Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell % Let's make better mistakes tomorrow. - Mike Monteiro % A computer is only as secure as the administrator is trustworthy. % ... no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - da Vinci % You /would/ make a creepy priest. - Bryan % In the future the easily distracted will be weeded out. -jdickerson % Facts can't be destroyed; they can only cease to be used. - Jay Simms % Not everything that can be counted counts. - Einstein % Not everything that counts can be counted. - Einstein % There's something inside me that makes me do that stuff. - Carol W. % Much madness is divinist sense/ To a discerning eye. - E. Dickinson % When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu % We loiter in winter when it is already spring. - Thoreau % A living dog is better than a dead lion. - Thoreau % Let him step to the music which he hears. - Thoreau % Into a perfect work time does not enter. - Thoreau % Any truth is better than make-believe. - Thoreau % Things do not change; we change. - Thoreau % Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. - Thoreau % They are all on a committee of arrangements. - Thoreau % A goose is a goose still, dress it as you will. - Thoreau % ... wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction.-HDT % Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface. - Thoreau % The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. - Thoreau % I talk to you from there. - Gordy Hoffman % By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. - O. Goldsmith % Meminerunt omnia amantes. - Ovid % The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.-Cesare Pavese % Our memories are independent of our wills. - R. B. Sheridan % The best thing for being sad is to learn something. -T. H. White % Routing is a black art - or at least a dark science. - Kirk McKusick % How soon "not now" becomes "never". - Martin Luther % A year from now you may wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb % Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. - Spanish proverb % If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. - G. Lee % For when solitude is your blanket ... and your noose. - F. Marculiano % FreeBSD may be used for any purpose, and without strings attached. % Me: http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/f720786ef4b2ff5b4b260ccd64b1bf96.jpg % You are not your code. - Ben Collins-Sussmann % I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed. - George Carlin % Computation is the principle; the computer is the tool. - Denning % Innovation [...] is new practice adopted by a community. - Denning % Caching works because our brains organize information by localities.-D % Fields of flowers don't lie. - Paul Lutus % If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon. - Gordon Lightfoot % Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.-G % Make every day count, or acquire a taste for regret. - Henry Rollins % In the future everybody is going to have 15 minutes of privacy. - P.Z. % Done is the engine of more. - Bre Pettis and Kio Stark % You can't win today's game on yesterday's pitches. - Frank Ferrante % I execute. That's what I do. - Aaron Ramirez % Getting unstuck is not only possible, it's an obligation. - Seth Godin % You untie a knot by picking at the worst part. - David Allen % Technology is the campfire around which we gather. - Laurie Anderson % My body is my birthright. - Morgan Todd % An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an' fear! - Robert Burns % Named must your fear be before banish it you can. - Yoda % It's like riding a bike that you hate. - John Campbell % it's okay to do a thing and not know why - John Campbell % Exhaustion is free and legal. - John Campbell % I think we should send the military to liberate Redmond.-ConceptJunkie % Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. - Richard Bach % If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place. -S.Godin % I'm the Chicken Little who cried wolf in the coal mine. - me % The everyday object is the monarch of all objects. - Bruce Sterling % Write the truest sentence you know. - Ernest Hemingway % You can't shrink your way to greatness. - Tom Peters % Unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future. - Alban Goodier % Ignore anything that makes you consider stopping. - Merlin Mann % And the men who spurred us on/ Sit in judgment of all wrong. - The Who % What else are you willing to believe? - Michael Shermer % There is little success where there is little laughter. - A. Carnegie % If your cup is full may it be again. - The Grateful Dead % Take this sinking boat/ And point it home/ We've still got time -GH/MI % I hate having to struggle to get to a place where I don't want to be-S % You won't disappoint me; I can do that myself. - Glen Hansard % The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.-B.L. % See randomness. - Paul Graham % True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. - G.K.Chesterton % The list of excuses is long, and getting longer all the time.- S.Godin % Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca % Live and learn/ From fools and from sages. - Steven Tyler % Complexity is insecurity. - Colin Percival % If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're headed.-Chn pvb % Best is good. Better is best. - Lisa Grunwald % I'd rather offend people needlessly than use needless words.-P. Graham % We procrastinate when we've forgotten who we are. - Merlin Mann % Q. How do you identify a high priority task? A. It's done.-stoltenborg % Warning: Do not look into beam with remaining eye. - dansdata.com % The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths. - Carl Sagan % A still-more-glorious dawn awaits: not a sunrise, but a galaxyrise.-CS % The sky calls to us. - Carl Sagan % How lucky we are, to live in this time. - Carl Sagan % The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. -Carl Sagan % We are a way for the universe to know itself. - Carl Sagan % Travel is broadening. - Carl Sagan % We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.Sagan % Eat foods in inverse proportion to how much its lobby spends.-Westphal % When drinking tea, just drink tea. - Zen saying % It's better to pay the grocer than the doctor. - Italian saying % To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.-Thoreau % You are the one who must grow up. - Dag Hammarskjold % There are no healthy excuses. - Michael Lopp % The most able are not vouchsafed this solace. - William H. Whyte % These words are less empty than my heart will become. - anonymous % Seek forgiveness for yourself as you forgive others. - SQLite team % I was an honor student. I don't know what happened. - David Malki % Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. - Walt Kelly % Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. - M. Atwood % They are weeds in the garden of meaning. - Jeffrey Zeldman % Ads are manipulations designed to subvert conscious judgment.~Shirky % What you now have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus % Obvious inadequacies are for the convenience of critics. - N. Goodman % You are most secure when nothing happens. - Chad Perrin % Legendo autem et scribendo vitam procudito. - Marcus Terentius Varro % Though they seem opposite, both are true. - Han Fei % I don't know what you expect staring into the TV set. - Talking Heads % I don't have to go to Spring Street / 'Cause it's spring everywhere.DW % Social networking users are not the customers -- they are the product. % Wondering around is the act of inquiring with generous spirit.-S.Godin % In the long run men hit only what they aim at. - Thoreau % Say no to some good things to say yes to the best thing.~Jason Kotecki % Don't mistake activity for achievement. - John Wooden % It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. - David Lynch % Ads sell you what you don't need so that you feel like you belong.Anon % I've fought not to let it get pounded out of me. -Don Van Vliet % Pain is a form of awareness. - Don Van Vliet % Point of view is worth eighty IQ points. - Alan Kay % What would help us design a better river? - David P. Reed % We see things not as they are, but as we are. - The Talmud % Nobody likes a chatty hostage. - Francesco Marculiano % Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.-F.O'C % Documentation scales better than our time. - Michael Lopp % Never let facts stand in the way of utility. - Don Norman % No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Stanislaw Lec % Time is thin around the cause and dense around the effect. -N. Kozyrev % We have a much higher ridiculousness threshold. - China Miéville % Don Quixote reads the world in order to prove his books. - Foucault % I don't believe professionalism and playfulness are mutually exclusive % If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. % The geometric metaphors can derive a repeated vectoral sum.-Mr. Kerber % I'm wearing my chaps. Show me to your router. - simestd % People like people who like being the people they are. -Lore Sjoberg % The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost % Tempus edax rerum. - Ovid % Immortality consists largely of boredom. - Zefrem Cochrane % Tell the truth and run. - Slavic proverb % Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing. - Yoda % Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. - C. Connolly % Sorry ... wrong meeting. - Bill Hicks % Sarcasm. Come on in! - Bill Hicks % Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. - DPM % IM or text me only for time-critical items; otherwise, please email. % So dawn goes down to day./ Nothing gold can stay. - Robert Frost % [A poem is] a momentary stay against confusion. - Robert Frost % Your challenge is to grow the rest of yourself so it matches. - ESR % Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine % The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,/Are higher rank than a' that.RB % All we have to do now is take these lies and make them true somehow.GM % I often paint fakes. - Picasso % When it hits the fan, it will not be evenly distributed. - Red Green % Have you ever woken up one day/With the feeling that you'd been away?B % The function of freedom is to free someone else. - Toni Morrison % For relaxing times, make it Suntory time. - Bob Harris / Bill Murray % A man who steals for me will also steal from me. - Teddy Roosevelt % If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.-E % When you make something no one hates, no one loves it. - Tibor Kalman % We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. - Eric Hoffer % I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. % The best way to complain is to make things. - James Murphy % Give hackers an inch and they'll take you a mile. - Paul Graham % If the solution is not beautiful, I know that it is wrong. - B. Fuller % We believe in rough consensus and running code. - David Clark % Ya wanna be a different fish, ya gotta jump outta the school.-VanVliet % Keep getting help until you get help that helps YOU. - Jolie O'Dell % Without great solitude no serious work is possible. - Pablo Picasso % One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.-vG % Hackers build things. Crackers break things. - Eric S. Raymond % Features should be engineered so that they can be disabled easily. -AL % Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish proverb % We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. -M. L. King, Jr. % If you wait until it's obvious, it's too late. - Matt Simmons % Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. % Success comes to those who can weather the storm. - I Ching % The Noise wants you to believe it's Signal. - Michael Lopp % You don't need more time ... you just need to decide. - Seth Godin % I seem to be a verb. - R. Buckminster Fuller % Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity. -William of Ockham % One in a million is next Tuesday. - Gordon Letwin % Ideas are just a multiplier of execution. - Derek Sivers % Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. -George Washington % Going out, I found, was really going in. - John Muir % Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees. - John Berger % However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. - S. Kubrick % Specialness is not a conserved quantity. - Zach Weiner % Keep what can be good. - unknown % No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. - Seth Godin % Now I am an 83-year-old wombat called Terry. - Geoff Aktinson % Emails are just badly formatted tasks. - ActiveInbox team % You can't dictate innovation. - Real Genius % Design from the content out, rather than the canvas in. - Mark Boulton % His job was to be alive to detail. - Michael Lewis % Don't wait until you know who you are to make things. - Austin Kleon % The least expensive query is the query you never run. - unknown % Will today be included in your memoirs? - Drew and Natalie Dee % A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind.- S. Johnson % There will always be something that isn't what you need to be doing.RW % Every successful large system was once a successful small system. - KK % Billionaires, all of us. - Ursula Le Guin % Poetry is an awareness of the world. - Andrei Tartovsky % If you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.CO % Your taste is why your own work disappoints you. - Ira Glass % Books are like movies for your brain. - Scott Kurtz % Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. -J. Wooden % My experience is what I agree to attend to. - William James % Only those items which I notice shape my mind. - William James % Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet. - Fermat % An aim is the only fortune worth the finding. - Robert Louis Stevenson % Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. - Buddha % The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato % Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - W.C. % It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - E. Roosevelt % Every man makes his own summer. - Robertson Davies % Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. - H. M. % Violence has an international language, but so does decency. -A.Cronin % It is easier to find new threats than new possibilities. -A.Gourevitch % ... but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli % Talent is nothing without focus and endurance. - Haruki Murakami % There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience. - H. G. % We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin % The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller % Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway % Sail away from the safe harbor. - Mark Twain % To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -E.D. % What would you have me do instead? - Seth Godin % What the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman % Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard Thurman % Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. - Thoreau % A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Emerson % Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle. -Michelangelo % First, decide who you would be. Then, do what you must do. - Epictetus % Work is love made visible. - Gibran % All you are unable to give possesses you. - Andre Gide % What he does is done for its own sake. - Aristotle % In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. - Gandhi % Negative self-talk is cargo-cult self-programming. - me % I loaf and invite my soul. - Walt Whitman % All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not.J-M Gurney % I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. -Ledru-Rollin % People don't know what they want until you show it to them.-Steve Jobs % Everything starts as somebody's daydream. - Larry Niven % Sometimes there's no point in giving up. - Larry Niven % No technique works if it isn't used. - Larry Niven % You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue.RH % I am a parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond together.Thoreau % How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live % That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Thoreau % It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.-T % A little thought is sexton to all the world. - Thoreau % The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. - Lao Tzu % Love truth, but pardon error. - Voltaire % It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong % There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. % Expectations are just leftover praise. - Chris Shiflett % All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut % Genius is childhood recalled at will. - Baudelaire % It just takes a genius to understand the simplicity. - Dennis Ritchie % Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot-H.Peter Anvin % Kindness is just about the best you can do. - Charles Bukowski % Evil is obvious only in retrospect. - Gloria Steinem % The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.dV % Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes % For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. -RWE % Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin % Precision is not reality. - Matisse % Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. - da Vinci % I do not seek. I find. - Picasso % Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. - Aristotle % It takes a very long time to become young. - Picasso % Technique is only a vehicle. - Callum Innes % An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.-Malraux % Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them. - Hume % Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. - Kristofferson % There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." -Barry % To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Edison % To understand is to perceive patterns. - Isaiah Berlin % [Poetry] remembers that it was first song. - Borges % Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes. - Georges Carpentier % No one wants advice, only collaboration. - John Steinbeck % This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. - C. Palahniuk % The most I ever did for you was to outlive you. But that is much.-ESVM % Music is the silence between the notes. - Debussy % Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin % The heart is forever inexperienced. - Thoreau % The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. - Camus % The reward of suffering is experience. - Aeschylus % Enough is a feast. - Buddhist proverb % At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. % Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -Maori pvrb % Beware the man of a single book. - Bertrand Russell % I would have more actual trouble and fewer imaginary ones. - Borges % It's not some message written in the dark. - Taylor Goldsmith % Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise. - Stallman % Intense effort followed by an acceptance of what you get in return.-SG % There is no catching up. There is is only catching on. - David Allen % Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - T. Pratchett % No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. - Robert Frost % Read. Not too much. Mostly facts. - Clay Johnson % Be ashamed to die, until you have scored some victory for humanity.-HM % If all men were just, there would be no need of valor. - Agesilaus % Be devoted to the unification of the diverse aspects of yourself. - TW % Everybody soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - RLS % I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. - Michaelangelo % It is the business of the future to be dangerous. - Whitehead % The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle % We protect what we know. - Aldo Leopold % Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know. - Lao Tzu % To create a world where every particle of dust breathes forth its joy. % You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -Henry Ford % Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. -JW % Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is essential. -JF % Good nonsense is good sense in disguise. - Josh Billings % Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Sir Isaac Newton % The more you worry the less you resolve. - Maricarda % Dogs bark at what they don't understand. - Heraclitus % Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. - Franklin % The essence of thinking is mastering ideas. - Theodore Roszak % You know the rule: if you are falling, dive. - Joseph Campbell % Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. -Gene Fowler % My reputation grows with every failure. - George Bernard Shaw % You are the window through which you see the world. - G. B. Shaw % The only thing standing between me and greatness is me. - Woody Allen % Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.-Merlin Mann % Suffering increases in proportion to knowledge of a better way. - J.H. % A man's accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never. % Silence is the corner-stone of character. - Charles Alexander Eastman % Life was much simpler when I worked as a lawn gnome.-Dr. Doofenshmirtz % You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy-E.H. % A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. - Edgar J. Mohn % Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. - S.L. % Pride is increased by ignorance. - John Gay % Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness. - Kahlil Gibran % Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.B % Start thinking about what the crazy times demand. - Seth Godin % Get into it or forget it. - Jessica Hagy % Reliability is never having to say you're sorry. - Bob Metcalfe % Keep giving them you, until you is what they want. - Dennis Palumbo % One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. - Rene Daumel % All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.E % You cannot find peace by avoiding life. - Virginia Woolf % ... there were other ways of making people into ghosts. - Harper Lee % Build tools for others that you want to be built for you. - K. Reitz % Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude. - Henry Miller % Science [...] a way of skeptically interrogating the universe. - Sagan % Poetry led me by the hand out of madness. - Anne Sexton % Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. - Rousseau % If you can dream - and not make dreams your master. - Kipling % Anger - use it, but don't lose it! - Mr. T % The survival incentive overrides false beliefs. - Eli Goldratt % In the calm, he is guilty of all the good he does not do. - Voltaire % The lives we live depend on the stories we tell. - Joan Didion % People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.-S.J. % It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. - S. Holmes % Accept it as though you had chosen it. - Eckhart Tolle % Knowledge is stronger than memory. - Bram Stoker % Time makes more converts than reason. - Thomas Paine % What's working and how can we do more of it? - Chip and Dan Heath % A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. - George R. R. Martin % If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. - Brian Tracy % The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. % The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. - GKC % Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. - Eckhart Tolle % The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth. - Seth Godin % Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility % The enemy knows the system. - Claude Shannon % Secrecy [...] is a prime cause of brittleness. - Schneier % Openness provides ductility. - Bruce Schneier % Information is the resolution of uncertainty. - Claude Shannon % Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability. - C.Shannon % Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.-TG % Gently inoculate against unreasoned fear. % Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy.Grandin % Men work together [...] Whether they work together or apart. -R. Frost % It's easier to go faster now than it is to go faster later. - S. Godin % I am not the sole author of my victories. - Ze Frank % If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.-A.E. % When smart people who care get frustrated, something is wrong.-S.Godin % Fear is merely unprocessed excitement. - Joe Peacock % Silence is entropy. - Joe Peacock % He needed to reach his goal while his mind was still strong enough.~GE % Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty. -Einstein % This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.Chuck Palahniuk % Productivity is the output of the exercise of free will. -Tantek Celik % Pretend you're good at it. - Neil Gaiman % Workaholism is like kryptonite to perspective. - Clay Collins % Guess what? It's still now. - Jon Kabat-Zinn % Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. - James Joyce % Nothing is more exhausting than the task that is never started.G.Rubin % Geography's just physics slowed down with a couple trees stuck in it.P % First things first, second things never. - Shirley Conran % A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment.-Yamamoto T. % A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. - Lana Turner % Never give an order that can't be obeyed. - Gen. Douglas MacArthur % I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow. -W.W. % It's better to offer no excuse than a bad one. - George Washington % What happens to a dream deferred? - Langston Hughes % Focus on what you need to do today to win tomorrow. - Seth Godin % Until you remove the noise, you're going to miss a lot of signal.-S.G. % The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.-Arch. % The alternative is unconsciousness. - David Foster Wallace % People aren't against you; they are for themselves. - ? % You will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. -DFW % This is water. - David Foster Wallace % A fanatic: one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim. % Teach a man to reason, and he will think for a lifetime. - Phil Plait % Man must develop his tendency towards the good. - Immanual Kant % To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. - G.K.C. % Who are a little wise the best fools be. - John Donne % The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - D. McKown % The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail. -Gustaf Lindborg % When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with. - W.S. % Humor is reason gone mad. - Groucho Marx % If you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution.D % Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason. -Andrew Solomon % Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. -Jefferson % The past has no power over the present moment. - Eckhart Tolle % Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. -E. Tolle % Complaining is stupid. Either act, or forget. - Stefan Sagmeister % The ideas of your friends are not always the friends of your ideas.-VR % Make yours a good self. - Robert Mock % If I'm not back in five minutes, just wait longer. - Ace Ventura % If everyone is busy fighting evil, who is left to create the good? -DH % It's not what it's about, it's how it's about it. - Roger Ebert % Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon % Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.G % Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.C % Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. % Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. - Bacon % http://members.dca.net/leipold/ap_cs.html % Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it was created. - W.H. % Easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.AJP % War is merely a continuation of politics by other means.- Clausewitz % Take your pleasure seriously. - Charles Eames % Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - Samuel Johnson % The desire to write grows with writing. - Desiderius Erasmus % Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. - Pearl S. Buck % Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. - P. T. % The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure. -M. Spark % The monkey's off my back, but the circus is still in town. - unknown % Nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do. -R. Kirsch % Paying attention in distracted world = bringing gun to knife fight.~JS % Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position; certainty is an absurd one.V % Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. - Don Henley % Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.-SR % I hear the sound/ I had to follow/ Once upon a time - The Moody Blues % No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. -Thoreau % You will not be punished for your anger, but by your anger. - Buddha % Beauty, without expression, tires. - Emerson % Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius % Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Heinlein % It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.-eec % Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.C % Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.-M.F. % Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.-Robert Frost % Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. - Eleanor Roosevelt % Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. -Buddha % Choose to be optimistic. It feels better. - The Dalai Lama % Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.-TR % Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. - Bill Cosby % ... if a user can access data, so can an intruder. - Richard Bejtlich % Everything is amazing and nobody's happy. - Louis C. K. % If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.-Buddha % Be so good they can't ignore you. - Steve Martin % Trying to look good limits my life. - Stefan Sagmeister % These years are endless, but they cannot be remembered. - James Salter % Never forget how easy it is to forget. - Gretchen Rubin % Magic is the idiot pretending to pull the coin out of my ear.PvP 10/12 % Science advances one funeral at a time. - Max Planck % To you from falling hands we throw / The torch - John McCrae % The child is in me still ... and sometimes not so still. - Fred Rogers % I noticed that on the bus ride home. - Lucien Pullen % Part of this world, part of another. - Gene Wilder % Nothing good gets away. - John Steinbeck % Your work has to be important to you either by faith or fact. -D. Tate % Feeling uninspired should be inspiration enough. - Justin David Cox % A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. - Carl Sagan % The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle. -slogan % But the will must be stronger than the skill. - Muhammad Ali % Add what is essentially your own. - Bruce Lee % To the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. -RMR % They're so smart that they break things. - Peter Salus % When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.-unknown % Computers save time the way kudzu prevents soil erosion. -Al Castanoli % Writing a program is nothing but debugging a blank page. - anonymous % Fail it before you sail it. -RDW % There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.-Mahatma Gandhi % To love at all is to be vulnerable. - C. S. Lewis % And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me.T % Do the people who like it take care of each other? - Clay Shirky % What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive. -S % Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo céntimo, es caro. - Seneca % Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.-N.M. % Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. - C. S. Lewis % We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow. -Seth Godin % Since in reality all is void, whereon can the dust fall? -Zen saying % Give it a home, or stop pretending you need it. - David Cain % I choose my own way to burn. - Sophie Scholl % Complaining about a wet sleeping bag gets you no sympathy. -Seth Godin % Friends don't let friends lose their capacity for humanity. -B. F. % Working hard is a skill you have to nurture. -Chris Shiflett % What is a pound of information worth? -Perry Luzwick % Whiny rants are inversely proportional to accomplishments.-Zach Holman % Habits are things you get for free. -Cory Doctorow % The best way to think is to write. -George Sheehan % There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain - Alexander Pope % Fear the man of one book. -Isaac D'Israeli % Everyone is normal until you get to know them. -Dave Sim % ...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -IN % Passion and dispassion. Choose two. -Larry Wall % Purpose is but slave to memory. -William Shakespeare % You don't get to just do the good parts. -Seth Godin % If you want to be the leader of your pack, then be your dog's parent.M % How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look. -W. H. Auden % Even the survivors tend to come away bleeding. -Warren Buffett % Imagination stems from the ability to break from categorization. -Bems % Today is better than never. - UfYH % Comparison is the thief of joy. - Theodore Roosevelt % The shortcut that's sure to work, every time: take the long way. -S.G. % The things we fear to initiate are always not in the instructions. -SG % We must meet one another doing good. -Pope Francis % Don't expect anyone to care as much as you. - Derek Sivers % Tell me what's important, and don't waste my time with stupid stuff.NC % It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.-C % It's possible that HTML email is my fault. - Jamie Zawinski % If you don't miss one day, you can't miss two. - Joe Peacock % I'll do that with my copious free sanity. - John Ziv III % Remember to always be yourself ... unless you suck. -Joss Whedon % Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. - Simone Weil % Every object is an analog computer of itself. - smbc % When in doubt, tidy up. -Brian Eno % The standard you walk past in the standard you accept.-Lt.G D.Morrison % Lost time is never found again. -Benjamin Franklin % Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better.-SG % All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw % Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain M.Fuller % Code is read more often than it is written. -Steve McConnell % Not my circus, not my monkeys. -Polish proverb % Next. Next. Next. - George Kao % Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.-A.E. % You can cure you. -John Lennon % Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali % To reverse Descartes: You are. So think. -Seth Godin % Playing the game is a form of winning the game. - Seth Godin % There are no prerequisites for hope. - Bryan Medsker % belonging to the invisible community of those who strive - A. Einstein % Now I think of money as bricks and planks, not fuel. -David Cain % It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. - W. C. Fields % It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot % We must travel in the direction of our fear. - John Berryman % The unfed mind devours itself. -Gore Vidal % People who care go first. - Seth Godin % I can sleep when the wind blows. - unknown % Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist-G.Carlin % You see all the people he has ever been rolled into one. -JoJo Moyes % Take what you love and make it the way you live your life -Bill Murray % ... something that most people doubt the value of. - Paul Buchheit % He'll be happy enough for himself. - Mallory Ortberg % Change your idea. -Paul Graham % Sometimes the middle is the end. - Liz Danzico % A bad analogy is like a wet screwdriver. - Poul-Henning Kamp % We play games to leave games. -Sam Bhagwat % Discourage an artist...you get absolutely nothing in return, ever. -KS % No. Right. Now. -Oliver Emberton % The impeded stream is the one that sings. -Wendell Barry % I make my patterns according to my mind. - Edna Williams % It takes a long time to grow an old friend. - John Leonard % You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. -EH % And to mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing. - Oscar Wilde % To remember him as he deserves, become better than you are. -esr % Neither cleverness nor stupidity are predictable. -Freeman Dyson % Reputation is what people expect us to do next. - Seth Godin % Nodding the head does not row the boat. -Irish proverb % Pay attention to your friends paying attention to the tea.-Sarah Perry % forever was nothing but nothing was enough - k.flay % An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. - R.Humphrey % Let me not die while I am still alive. - unknown % A system cannot fail those it was never intended to protect. - W.E.B.D % You are a child of the universe. - Max Ehrmann % Act in the interim as we expect to act in the long haul. -Seth Godin % The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.-Russell % Until proven wrong, assume you are the weak link in any system.-@ndw % Be the person you needed when you were younger. -unknown % Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -Heinlein % Creative work is never competitive. -Chuck Jones % He knew the past, which is sometimes much worse. - Alexandre Dumas % The solution seems so obvious now: always be doing the last few-D.Cain % History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Seth Godin % Over awareness of risk is better than blind acceptance.-Heidi Potter % Lack of drama can enable us to do great work. - Seth Godin % The belonging you seek is not behind you; it is ahead. -Maz Kanata % If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. -M. Maltz % It's better to want than to owe. - Natalie Bacon % What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. - Goethe % The body prepares for sleep all day long. -Greg Ferenstein % Sort is prophylactic for search. - Tom Griffiths % ... like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. -Suzuki Roshi % Knowing is not enough; we must apply. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -HM % Your first reaction is usually outdated. -Derek Sivers % You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. -Jon Kabat-Zinn % You get what you measure, but *only exactly* what you measure-M.Levine % To reverse Descartes: You are. So think. ~Seth Godin % Don't die until death comes for you. - Abdullah al-Khateeb % You can't download your way to parity with Ft Meade. - Mara % Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome. - Charlie Munger % Break your heart, find your spine. - Joe Peacock % There is no knowledge that is not power. - Emerson % What evidence would you need to see to change your mind? -Seth Godin % Comfort is the enemy of progress. -Joe Peacock % Think of your choices as effects, not causes. -David Cain % Get smarter. Hurry. Solve interesting problems. Care. More.-Seth Godin % Do what's right and ask useful questions. - Seth Godin % The little ball moves the big ball. - Mao Zedong % If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.-A.E. % The reader does not steal and the thief does not read. -Iraqi saying % The past is a different country; they do things differently there.-LPH % You never have time, only intentions. - David Cain % The clearest indication of character is what people find laughable.-G % Be proactively paranoid. It doesn't work retroactively. - thegrugq % If you're not drowning, you're a lifeguard. - Seth Godin % If it's not helping you achieve your goals, ignore it. -Seth Godin % Failure frightens people who care less than you do. - Seth Godin % Life is unconditionally meaningful. - Vicktor Frankl % It's got two moving parts - and you are one of them. - unknown % One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. -E.B. White % We are all temporarily abled. - @CindyLi % Complexity reinforces privilege. -Tantek Çelik % The price of light is less than the cost of darkness. - Arthur Nielsen % But dared not spare to do the best we could. -Robert Frost % Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works. -Michael Hartung % I ... define security as the absence of unmitigatable surprise.-D.Geer % How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.-A.Dillard % But one day, I know, it will be otherwise. - Jane Kenyon % The hands are churches that worship the world. -Naomi Shihab Nye % If it's painful, do it more often. -Humble/Farley % the gods wait to delight in you. - Charles Bukowski % If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up. - Shia LaBeouf % Own the choice. - Seth Godin % These people bought time for us. - Dwight D. Eisenhower % Any sufficiently advanced software is indistinguishable from malice.MD % Attention is the beginning of devotion. -Mary Oliver % ...a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity. - Fernando Corbató % Our narrative defeats our surroundings, every time. - Seth Godin % Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone. -May Sarton % Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age % Experience ... was merely the name we gave our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde % if you poured water on a quote, it would become a story.Gloria Steinem % The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.-G.Steinem % Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson. - unknown % There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.-Z.N.Hurston % In my favorite fantasy / I am given / permission -Chase Berggrun % Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers. -T.Lehrer % Fix the acute, but also fix the root. -Tom Sellers % History doesn’t always repeat itself, but it usually rhymes. -S. Godin % We're operating from a knowledge base that is not very dense. -J.Skeen % If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree. - Shirley Jackson % The quality of your decisions are the currency of leadership.- Rands % Make a good bluff. Then make the bluff good. - Mabel Albertson % Freedom is the recognition of necessity. - Hegel % The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. -RWE % We're the banana peel in the coal mine. -Jon Stewart % If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading % Metrics are great tools ... but terrible goals. - Jean Moroney % My mission is to keep the light in your eyes ablaze. - A. Morissette % Ask: To whom or what is my behavior a loyalty? - Simon Lamb % The best productivity app on your phone is Airplane Mode. - Ben Meer % When perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun. - Simon Lamb % All knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. - Leonardo da Vinci % 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZYXVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA9876543210 Royce's "wise quotes" .sig fortune file https://www.roycewilliams.net/fortune/signature-fortune.txt $Id: signature-fortune.txt,v 1.38 2023/08/25 17:44:06 royce Exp royce $ See also: https://adam.nz/quotes/ %