“Religion is like a drug, in small doses it’s curative, in large, it’s addictive.”

        — Eli Gold, The Good Wife

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

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

        — Charles Buxton

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

        — Oscar Wilde

In reference to the 2010 World Cup: “The French give up, the Americans turn up at the last minute and England are left to face the Germans. Does that ring any bells?”

        — Simon Cuce (@simoncuce)

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

        — Eve Merriam

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

        — Liz Smith

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

        — Marshall Lumsden

“Unix never says ‘please’”

        — Rob Pike

“You can’t run from your problems forever. Eventually, you’ll have to take a car or a plane to really avoid them.”

        — Caprice Crane

“I know God wouldn’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”

        — Mother Teresa

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

        — Irisa Hail

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

        — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow)

“The (computer) mouse is probably the narrowest straw you could try and suck all of human expression through.”

        — Joy Mountford

“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”

        — Marcel Marceau

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

        — Tom Clancy

“It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.”

        — David Harris

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

        — Tor Norbye, The Java Posse Podcast

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

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

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

        — Unknown

“I have never lowered myself to name calling, and I’m not about to start on account of that prat.”

        — Unknown

Yesterday it built.
No change; today it does not.
The code has feelings.

        — Pete Goodliffe

“This is everything we asked for but not what we wanted.”

        — Unknown, from Clients From Hell

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

        — Irish Blessing

“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”

        — Doug Gwyn

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

        — Proverb

“We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.”

        — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“He who has begun is half done.”

        — Horace

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

        — James Oppenheim

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

        — George Bernard Shaw