“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

“When the house burns one forgets even lunch.—Yes, but one eats later in the ashes.”
– Nietzsche

“Evolution fails again. It gave me a rib cage, but that only protects my heart some of the time.” – Ray (minuszerodegrees)

“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

“We are born, we live, we die, in the midst of marvels; it is astounding that priests, astrologers, charlatans have profited by this propensity, by this strange circumstance, to exploit our ideas, and direct them to their own advantage.”
– Napoleon (to Josephine, April 5, 1796. During the 1st Italian Campaign)

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

“Why would you want to do that? Because I want to know how it works.
Good grief, why would you want to do that? Because it’s the best way there is to build the skills required to understand how all the rest of the programming universe works.“
– Jeff Duntemann

“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