"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
- H.G. Wells
"Change and comfort rarely come together"
- Unattributed quote from a manager I work with
Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority.
— Matt Lee, https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opinion-github-vs-gitlab
"“That’s not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives.” IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN’T LIVE AT ALL."
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
“The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”
― Abraham Lincoln 1864
Life is a comedy to those who think, but a tragedy to those who feel.
- Horace Walpole
"The world is cruel but you don’t have to be"
Soulmates are not found. They're made.
If they gave Jerry Falwell's corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
David Foster Wallace: You'll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
* It might 'caring' rather than 'worrying', I'm not sure, and can't be bothered finding the book to check it.
It's also possible that DFW didn't coin this phrase.
A new one I heard from Nightcrawler, he probably quoted someone else...
"Love is best measured by the things we forgive. "
“When masturbation’s lost its fun you’re fuckin lazy”
— Greenday, Long View
"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
"There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived." —Anomander Rake
From Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Though there are questions as to its veracity, "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad". As an artist, this is the reason I'll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.
Survival is insufficient
- Emily St. John Mandel
From Frank Herbert’s Dune
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.
15:85 Quran
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Harry S. Truman
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
From The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it"
And at the end:
"No one keeps death in view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers, as though they had lived but the tiniest span." [As if a child had died]
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
“Anything that detracts from enjoying yourself is to be avoided.”
Gnothi Sauton
Don't do what you think you have to do... only do what you absolutely must do
"Love is just a word" haha just kidding, but it's the first one that came to mind. I don't think I actually have a fav
“Rhymes is made of garlic”
— Ghostface Killa
Anything Einstein said I have a bias towards.
