When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is ascoundrel. ― H. L. Mencken, "Newspaper Days: 1899-1906" (1941)

Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!""However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me asense of obligation." ― Stephen Crane

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy in its own way. ― Tolstoy

The attention span of a computer is as long as its electrical cord.

The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.The goal of nature is to build better mice.

Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

Perpetuo vincit qui utitur clementia. (He is forever victor who employsclemency.) ― Syrus

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to makeit so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is tomake it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. ― Charles Anthony Richard Hoare