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.

George Orwell, Author

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. … Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.

Stephen King

Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

Douglas Adams

Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

James A. Arconati

One man's trash is another man's treasure. One man's 'boring' is another man's pleasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Thomas Jefferson

Its soul, its climate, its equality, liberty, laws, people, and manners. My God! how little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Sir Patrick Stewart

I have the strong feeling that, should the time come for me, having had no role in my birth, I would like there to be a choice I might make about how I die.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Are we seeking power for power’s sake? Or are we seeking to make the world and our nation better places to live. If we seek the latter, violence can never provide the answer. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Henry Ford

A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time.

John Steinbeck

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Agatha Christie

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Chief Joseph

Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more, forever.

Joel Spolsky

The difference between a tolerable programmer and a great programmer is not how many programming languages they know, and it's not whether they prefer Python or Java. It's whether they can communicate their ideas. By persuading other people, they get leverage. By writing clear comments and technical specs, they let other programmers understand their code, which means other programmers can use and work with their code instead of rewriting it. Absent this, their code is worthless.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Indiana Jones

Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.

Turkish Proverb

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.