Tom Waits

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Ben Franklin

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let each new year find you a better man.

Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Epicurus

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

Frank Zappa

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illlusion becomes to expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Dalai Lama

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength.

H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Carl Sagan

In order to make an apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe.

via this isn't happiness™ (Heath Killen)

John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Turkish Proverb

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

William Durant (founder of General Motors)

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Michael J. Fox

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Leslie Lamport

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.