Category: Quotations

To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butterfat over it.Hindu proverb

I’m not the worrying type. Worriers never get anything done.Linus Torvalds

When a hurricane damaged my father’s house, my brother rushed over with a gas grill, three coolers full of beer, and an enormous Fuck-It Bucket — a plastic pail filled with jawbreakers and bite-size candy bars.  ("When shit brings you down, just say ‘fuck it,’ and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.")  There was no electricity…

A good garden may have some weeds.Thomas Fuller

It is only in appearance that time is a river.  It is rather a vast landscape, and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.Thornton Wilder

Treat your friends as you would a bank account; refrain from drawing too heavily on either.Samuel Johnson

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.Aeschylus