“That’s the bear trap, the greatest vice. Your job. You can justify just about any behavior with it. Maybe that’s why you do it, so you don’t have to deal with all those other problems.” – Tom West, The Soul of a New Machine

“[…] it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” – Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

“Yes, it gets easier… The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
Bob Harris, Lost in Translation (2003)

“The thing is, Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. “
Peter Gibbons, Office Space (1999)

“It’s a basic truth of the human condition, that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.” – Dr. House

“Siempre fue alguien, ya sea con la buena intención de incluirla, o la mala de exponerla, que a la mitad de una disertación le pasara la palabra. Con toda modestia, ella siempre repuso, ‘Yo de esas cosas no sé.’” – Y tu mamá también (2001)

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. […] And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs

“We don’t get to choose how we start in this life. Real greatness is what you do with the hand you’re dealt.”
Victor “Goddamn” Sullivan, Uncharted 3

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
Brave New World

“What is the future? What is the past? What are we ourselves? What ether surrounds us and hides us from the very things that at most behooves us to know? We are born, we live, we die, in the midst of marvels. Is it surprising that priests, astrologers, and charlatans have profited by this propensity? By this strange circumstance to exploit our ideas and direct them to their own advantage?”
Napoleon (written sometime during the 1st Italian Campaign)

“I should very soon either do much or be ruined.”
Horatio Nelson

“I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
C.A.R. Hoarse

“There you have it, Montag. It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time…”
Farenheit 451