"In the beginning, one of the things that God said before the Bible started—the first thing, according to the Bible, was: “Let there be light.” But actually, there were several former pronouncements, one of which was: “You’ve got to draw the line somewhere.”" —Alan Watts

"Prompt in haste, repent at leisure." —Jason Gorman, LinkedIn

"JSON made the web shittier in a way that XML tried and failed." -Tantek Celik

"If you feel angry, resentful, or bitter... express it because that’s normal.
And if that burns the bridge, then let that fire light the way to your next bridge." —Megan Lieu

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.” —John A. Shedd

"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." –G. K. Chesterton

"This is exactly the sort of scenario where I imagine my waffle delivery drone idea would be helpful." —James Gallagher

"Omnes stulti, et deliberatione non utentes, omnia tentant." —Thomas d'Aquinas, Summa Theologica ("Fools and those who do not think try everything")

"Ergo, omnes stulti Iavascriptum tentant. QED." —Norman Birkett, LinkedIn ("Therefore, all fools try JavaScript. QED.")

"In God we trust, all others must bring data." - Attributed to W. Edwards Deming

"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values." —Marshall McLuhan, "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man"

"I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine ... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas. I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe." — Roger Ebert, Mad About the Movies (1998 parody collection)