One of my sergeants back in the infantry school of Fort Benning almost 50 years ago, which is where I learned everything about leadership, said to me one day: “Lieutenant! You’ll know you’re a good leader when people will follow you… if only out of curiosity.” – Gen. Colin Powell (source)

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. – Al Capone

Don’t use this: to make curry. The curry one is Panang. A Parang is like a small machete. – woot! (source)

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder — infinitely prouder — to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, “Our Father who art in heaven.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years. – Harry S. Truman

I’m very aware that the word “algorithm” makes about 85% of people want to gouge their own eyes, right? But I mentioned this at a tech conference that I was at to someone, and they agreed with me. But they added that it makes the remaining 15% of people mildly aroused. – Hannah Fry (source)

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory… :-) – Larry Wall (1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com)

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep. – Will Rogers (“The Best of Will Rogers”)

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. – Martin Fowler (source)

Meredith: “Apathy kills, Hank.” Hank: “I don’t care.” “Californication” (Season 1, Episode 4)

Programming is an art form that fights back. – Unknown (source)

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people. – Brandon Sanderson (“Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians”, p.165)

Programmers who refuse to keep exploring will stagnate, forget their joy and lose the will to program (and become managers). – M Haverbeke (source)

I bought some shoes from a drug dealer… I don’t know what he laced them with, but I’ve been tripping all day. – Unknown (source)

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. – Gen. Omar Bradley (source)

The only way you can learn to do something new is to change what you’re already doing. Change is necessary for progression. – GH

Choose a major you love and you’ll never work a day in your life because that field probably isn’t hiring. – Unknown (source)

Clarke’s Three Laws: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke (source)

When a code addict needs a fix, they just do a few extra lines.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory. – P.W. Bridgman

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist of the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army’s downfall. – Napoleon (“Military Maxims and Thought”)

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. – Douglas Crockford (source)

Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art. – Steve Jobs (source)

Consultation, n.: Medical term meaning “to share the wealth.”

When disaster finally did strike, it didn’t come in the form of fraudulent transaction. The donut box fell over, late on Friday night. Roland had to call Roy, who had to commute into the office to stand the box back up. After doing some root cause analysis, Roy also taped the box to a server rack, thus guaranteeing continual uptime. – Charles Robinson (source)

I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. – John F. Kennedy

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. – Joseph Weizenbaum (source)

Would you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?

Sally, having swallowed cheese Directs down holes the scented breeze Enticing thus with baited breath Nice mice to an untimely death. – Geoffrey Taylor (“Cruel, Clever Cat”, 1933)

Crystals are like people, it is the defects in them which tend to make them interesting! – Colin Humphreys

Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. – Filipe Fortes (source)

She’s not stupid. She just gets distracted. By, you know, breathing. – Brandon Sanderson (“Alcatraz Versus the Sciverner’s Bones”, p.127)

If I ask him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from him, and then do the very best that my judgment will teach me, he is bound to own and honor that transaction, and he will do so to all intents and purposes.

May the dogs of Fallujah feast hearty on the remains of our fallen enemies. – USMC

Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. – Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian

Those who dwell on the past stay in the past. – GH

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six of them sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. – Elbert Hubbard

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. – Winston Churchill

If Germany is the fatherland, and Russia is the mother land, does that make WWII domestic violence? – Mi_Lady (source)

First of all, fathers are giving a name and a heritage to their children — clean and honorable. Fathers are for long, hard work, mostly their own kind of work; … for trying to give their children things [their] fathers never had. Fathers are for talking with, for encouraging, for putting arms around; for understanding mistakes, but not condoning them; for disciplining when needed, then loving all the more; for being strong and forceful, and for being tender and gentle.

My friend wanted to feel like a princess for her wedding day, so I made her marry a man she never met in order to secure a French alliance. – Michelle Wolf (source)

“I wonder,” Gertrude said, as the workers left with the IT clock, “if Thomas Jefferson, that American president, had as much trouble keeping his clocks in sync.” “He had the benefit of American ingenuity,” Hanzo said. “We only have German bureaucracy to work with.” – Erik Gern (source)

It’s not at all important to get it right the first time. It’s vitally important to get it right the last time. – Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. – Gen. George S. Patton

Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime. – David Leinweber (source)

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. – Benjamin Disraeli

Great minds don’t think alike. Great minds think for themselves.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. – Gen. Colin Powell (source)

With regards to shooting oneself in the foot with complexity, “Guns don’t kill people, operator overloading does.”

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. – Henry David Thoreau

Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it. – Salvador Dali

How do Hutts program their computers? Jabba-script – @DepressedDarth (source)

No prototypes. Just make the game. Polish as you go. Don’t depend on polish happening later. Always maintain constantly shippable code. It’s incredibly important that your game can always be run by your team. Bulletproof your engine by providing defaults upon load failure. Keep your code absolutely simple. Keep looking at your functions and figure out how you can simplify further. Great tools help make great games. Spend as much time on tools as possible.

If at first you don’t succeed, reduce your expectations until you’re a success. – Shane Wighton (source)

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. – Brigham Young (“Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young”, p.45)

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. – Jack Handey (source)

If you don’t know what Linux is, Linux is a bit like punching yourself in the face. When someone says “Why are you punching yourself in the face?”, you go “Well it’s free.” – Matt Parker (source)

Judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgements. – General of the Army Omar N. Bradley

The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. – Samuel Adams

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. – Ken Hakuta

If your pain and anguish end up taking you out — then it was all wasted. Let your adversity count for more than a reason to explain your defeat. – James MacArthur, President, BYU 10th Stake

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. – Benjamin Franklin

Machines should work. People should think. – IBM commercial (source)

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. – Teller

Oxford has added “mansplain” to its dictionaries, and let me tell you why that’s significant… – Josh Gondelman (source)

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. – Gen. George S. Patton Jr. (source)

Men cease to think when they think they know it all. – Horace

According to Science Fiction writer Robert Heinlein, “all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department. The first two process most matters, as the third is very small…[consisting] of one elderly G5 female clerk, usually out on sick leave.” So of course your orders were processed by the Practical Joke and/or Surprise Party Depts. – Robert Heinlein

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members. – Pres. Harold B. Lee (“Preach My Gospel”, p.13)

William Hamblin’s fictional “Moses Middlebury” school of philology, according to which “Moses” and “Middlebury” are really the same name. You just have to drop the “-oses” and add the “-iddlebury.” – Daniel Peterson, for the Deseret News (source)

Credit card company: What’s your mother’s maiden name? Me: Donkey Kong Bumper Boat. Them: Uh, yes. What? Me: I’m in security." – Steve Werby (source)

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (source)

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can’t agree on when it’s necessary to compromise. – Larry Wall

Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing. – Ron Swanson (“Parks and Recreation”)

お前に１ついい事教えてやるよ。 絶対負けない唯一の方法、勝つことだよ。 “ピンポン” (2002)

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. – Mark Z. Danielewski, “House of Leaves” (source)

We can’t be perfect today, but we can be that much closer tomorrow. – GH

Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. – Keith Bostic

Plato was a funny little Greek man who lived a long time ago. He is probably best known for two things: First, for writing stories about his friends, and second for philosophically proving that somewhere in the eternities there exists a perfect slice of cheesecake. (Read the Parmenides – it’s in there.) – Brandon Sanderson (“Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians”, p.121-2)

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. – Jack London

Preach the truth as you understand it. Do not speculate on things you know nothing about, for it will benefit no one. – Wilford Woodruff (“Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff”, p.61)

W.C. Fields said a wonderful thing about professional comedians. He said if a man dresses up as an old woman and putters on the street and falls down a manhole, most people laugh. But to make a professional comedian laugh, it really has to be an old woman. – John Cleese (source)

Programming IRL: “ETA for an apple pie?” “2h” 8h later: “Where is it?” “You didn’t tell me the dishes were dirty and you lacked an oven.” – Rick Fillion (source)

In my public teaching I never permit my mind to follow in any channel except that which the Spirit dictates to me…. – Wilford Woodruff (“Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff”, p.59)

It’d be a mistake to push a man to violence if violence is what he has dedicated his life to perfecting. “The Terminal List” (Season 1, Episode 6)

Put “True, False = False, True” into your python libraries. People will soon learn to not “import *” from them… – The Rev Johnny Healey (source)

Real hackers defend. Anyone can use a tool, exploit a vuln, and phish a meatpuppet. Offense is like Candy Crush. Defense is like chess. – Info Security Jerk (source)

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal. – Groucho Marx (“Ready Player One”)

If a piece of software is described in any way, shape or form with the word “enterprise” it’s a piece of garbage. – Remy Porter (source)

To err is human. To really fuck up takes root privs. – Unknown (source)

Schneier’s Law: Any person can invent a security system so clever that he or she can’t imagine a way of breaking it. – Bruce Schneier

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. – Richard Feynman

So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things. – Ryan Singer (source)

If I heat my solid state hard drive until it becomes a gaseous state hard drive, would that enable cloud computing? – lazymangaka (source)

In programming, the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve. – Paul Graham (source)

Algorithmic complexity for structured programmers: All algorithms are O(f(n)), where f is someone else’s responsibility. – Peter Cooper (source)

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. – Edward A. Murphy Jr.

Writing specs is like flossing: everybody agrees that it’s a good thing, but nobody does it. – Joel Spolsky (source)

Casey: What is going on here? Big Mike: Store’s being bought. They’re canning everybody except Bartowski and Grimes. Jeff: We’re staging a revolution to take down the man. Casey: I want in. Lester: How do we know that we can trust you, son? That you’re not some kind of spy for the man? Casey: Because the only thing I hate more than hippie neo-liberal fascists and anarchists… are the hypocrite fat-cat suits they eventually grow up to become.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (source)

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. – Richard Feynman (“Rogers Commission Report”, 1986)

What is the face of a coward? The back of his head as he runs from battle. – Frank Underwood (“House of Cards”, Season 3, Episode 3)

[The Gospel] embraces all morality, all virtue, all light, all intelligence, all greatness, and all goodness. It introduces a system of laws and ordinances. – Brigham Young (“Discourses of Brigham Young”, 3)

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

The quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of go to statements in the programs they produce. – Dijkstra

The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take. – Roy Carlson, University of Wisconsin (source)

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

I believe that God has opened up these treasures of intelligence [technology] to enhance his purposes on the earth. – James E. Faust (source)

We may catch a lot of flak from other countries. But when you’ve been kicking ass and taking names since 1776, hater’s gonna hate. – Daniel Tosh (“Tosh.0”, 01-Feb-2011)

There are two kinds of people on planet earth who do not have beards, women and children. I am neither. – Phil Robertson (source)

The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. – Dr. McCoy (“Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”)

The experts say: that it would be great if bushes and trees moved out of our way, but until they learn to respect us, we must use force. – woot! (source)

A student said to his master: “You teach me fighting, but you talk of peace. How do you reconcile the two?” The master replied: “It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war.” – Unknown (source)

We have a mission in the world: each man, each woman, each child who has grown to understanding or to the years of accountability, ought… to be qualified to preach the truth, to bear testimony of the truth. – Pres. Joseph F. Smith (“Preach My Gospel”, p.12)

There in the Gospel as recorded by St. John, I found the clear and certain answer: Jesus would always do the will of his Father…. “For I do always those things that please him” [John 8:29]. – President Marion G. Romney

When life hands you lemons, throw them back and wait for oranges. – GH

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

In politics, the only way to know who’s stabbing you in the back is to see their reflection in the eyes of the person stabbing you from the back. – Kevin Dutton, quoting a U.K. politician (source)

Why regret your mistakes? Regret only comes in when you stop striving to become better. – GH

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said. – Marvin J. Ashton

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Marilyn Monroe