Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.
Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views such that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.
If you come in last place it doesn't mean you're bad, it just means everyone else is better than you.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to deal with it in a peaceful way.
Having knowledge and not doing anything with it is just the same as having no knowledge.
Your limit is only set by you.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
One lives for the things they are willing to die for.
It gets worse the longer you stay around, you just get better at ignoring the shittiest parts as time goes on.
The Internet gave us access to everything, but at the same time, it gave everything access to us.
If you smell shit everywhere you go, you should try checking your shoes.
You may not be the winning horse right now, but you're the only one I'll ever bet on.
The test of man is not how how far he will go to win, but how far he will go when he has already lost.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Everything is magic, except to the magician.
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried
Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute
Death is only the end if you think the story is about you
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
The only thing better than perfect is standardized.
Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from.
Tolerance requires an intolerance to intolerance.
When a measure becomes a targets, it ceases to be a good measure.
No raindrop feels responsible for the flood.
When people can’t control you, they will try to control how others think and feel about you.
The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been achieved.
The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.
If paying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.
Don't confuse activity with accomplishment.
At what point does a tinkerer become a programmer, provided no formal background in the latter?
Don't confuse temptation with opportunity.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Perfect is the enemy of good.