Inspiring Quotations for Frustrated Web Warriors

Complied by Dyanna Culp

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe

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Three things are certain: death, taxes, and lost data. -unknown

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The majority of businessmen are incapable of original thought because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. -David Ogilvy

User-friendly, my ass. -Sally Breeden, commenting on the IBM PC, October 28, 1983

There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity. -Aristotle

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. - Marianne Williamson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -Howard Aiken

Success is the child of audacity. -Benjamin Disraeli

Bitches are aggressive, assertive, domineering, strong-minded, direct, blunt, candid, hard-headed, vicious, competent, competitive, independent, stubborn, demanding, egoistic, driven, achieving, overwhelming, threatening, scary, ambitious, tough, boisterous and turbulent. A Bitch takes shit from no one. You may not like her, but you cannot ignore her.    

 -Joreen/ sisterhood movement

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. -Jean Sibelius

There are two ways to write error free programs. Only the third one works. -unknown

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

-John Kenneth Galbraith

You've heard about the programmer that died while washing his hair in the shower. The instructions said, Lather, rinse, repeat. -unknown

I think there is a world market for about five computers.

-Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board of IBM, 1943

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. -Heinlein

Put out fires during the daytime. Do your real work at night. Sleep is just an addiction.

-Dieter Müller

Sleep: An inadequate substitute for caffeine.

Being married to a programmer is like having a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say. -unknown

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.

-T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

-"Think Different" from Apple Computers

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. -President Clinton,1996

You know you're obsessed with computer graphics when you're outside and you look up at the trees and think, "Wow! That's spectacular resolution!" -unknown

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.  

-Bertrand Russell

One measure of the power of a new idea is the resistance it meets. -Leroy Jack Syrop

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. -Wayne Calloway

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam that is everything.

-Henri Poincare

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. -Alan Shepherd

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. -F.Scott Fitzgerald

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common. -John Locke

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. -Christian Morgenstern

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, of more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

-Rousseau

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him a spinal cord would fully suffice. - Einstein

A warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: ‘Does this path have a heart? - Carlos Castaneda

"It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure."  -Emilio James Trujillo

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Go deep, go far into the scheme of things, and there is mathematics everywhere. Go deeper, go nearer to the core of reality, and there is music everywhere. -Slichter, Science in a Tavern

When I’m old, I’m never going to say, I didn’t do this, or I regret that. I’m going to say, I don’t regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all. –Heinlein