Quotes:

1) Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been
   hurt. And dance like no one is watching.

2) However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
   results. (Winston Churchill)

3) "When I'm 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)

4) I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand  ways that won't work. 
(Thomas Edison)

5) For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. (H. L. Mencken)

6) We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
   when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

7) I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying
   to please everybody. (Bill Cosby)

8) Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death
   really hates that!  (Matt Frewer)

9) The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to
   appreciate it. (Franklin P Jones)

10) When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he
    had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. (Bob
    Edwards)

11) There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. (Peter Sellers)

12) The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
    comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge
    and controversy. (Martin Luther King)

13) A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is
    for other people. (Thomas Mann)

14) Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. (Indiana Jones)

15) Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much
    better. (Laurie Anderson)

16) Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

17) Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or
    sarcastic thing. (John Erskine)

18) Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the
    intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
    (Gallagher)

19) There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

20) Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
    (Alexandre Dumas)

21) It's rare to remember a task completed without mishap, therefore
    only when one makes mistakes does one learn anything.  (Kolt Loughran)


Tech:

1) Why was a "virtual base class" called "virtual"?  Often, I just give
   the flip explanation "well, virtual means magic" and carry on with some
   more urgent issue. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

2) No system is so foolproof that it can't be brought to its knees by
   a well-intentioned novice.

3) This just gives credence to my thought that for any process W or
   device X, you'll find person Y who never had a problem with it and
   person Z who says it causes cancer. (James O'Kane)

4) Running a service, any service, on the internet is like putting a
   child with a hammer in a room full of colored eggs and telling them
   not to break any. (Matthew Hunt)

5) It was nature that invented velcro, some guy just ported it to plastic
   (Jonathan Billings)


