Slack loading quotes. There is a way to insert them programmatically but there are only 150 of them so why bother to script it.

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When the going get weird, the weird turn pro. — Hunter S. Thompson

Moving Heaven and Earth without effort is simply a matter of concentration. — The Way of the Samurai

The problem with intelligent communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw

Why is it that every time I try to build a thing of beauty I find a mob with pitchforks and torches outside my castle??? — Victor Sussman

The Three Virtues of Programming are laziness, impatience and hubris. — Larry Wall

This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context. — David Moser

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. — Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod

JavaScript is a sloppy language, but inside it there is an elegant, better language. — Douglas Crockford,

I program in English then comment in Java to let the computer know how to do it. — Comment on "Portrait of a n00b" by Steve Yegge

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquering, The dredful Ioy, that alwey slit so yerne — Chaucer

I'm not a veteran JavaScript developer but I'm finding very interesting and powerful "the client side of the force" :D — Claudio Calboni

HTML as it is found in the wild: poor, nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short. — John Cowan

Read the source, Luke.

Only two industries refer to their customers as "users." — Edward Tufte

A basic principle of data processing teaches the futility of trying to maintain independent files in synchronism. — Fred Brooks

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake

HTML display bugs that manifest in off-market [or obsolete] browsers are indicative of latent display bugs in mainstream browsers. — Duncan

It's easy to learn to drive a golf cart, but it's hard to express yourself in one. — Larry Wall

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. — Brian Foote

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis. — Alan Perlis

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. — Ray Kurzweil

Every [Web site] has at least two purposes: one for which it was [designed] and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. — Dijkstra

Never tell me the odds. — Han Solo

And death I think is no parenthesis — E. E. Cummings

I'm not schooled in the science of human factors, but I suspect surprise is not an element of a robust user interface. — Chip Rosenthal

Designers talk and think a lot like science fiction writers do, except in a much less melodramatic and histrionic way. — Bruce Sterling

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — J. K. Galbraith

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. — Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment — Dijkstra

[Lisp] has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. — Edsger Dijkstra

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay

Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for. — Jan Houtema

If the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. — Edsger Dijkstra

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra

Programs must be written for people to read and only incidentally for machines to execute — Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs

This is NOT to say that design is unnecessary. But after a certain point, design is just speculation. — Philip Chu

One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working by looking at them. — Charles Strauss

[Programming] is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. — Edsger Dijkstra

It's hard to read a book on stage magic without out glancing at the cover to make sure it isn't a book on software design — Bruce Tognazzini

With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. — Dennis Ritchie

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. — C.A.R. Hoare

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits. — Alan Perlis

Give good people good tools, and leave them alone. — Alistair Cockburn

If it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck that's two data points.

Community & citizenship should be… a project's central activities and measures, at least on a par with code review & testing — A. Cockburn

You can't stop seeking out ever more diverse solutions and pulling the rabbits from the hats. — Phillhip Hunt

Battle not with monsters. — Nietzsche

If that is the way it must be done, then that is the way you must do it. — Sir Diddimus

The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. — Senator Ted Stevens, 2006

Keep on sharpening a blade and you will wind up blunting its edge. — Lao Tze

Don't write a platform, and don't solve the general case. — Tom Igoe

Is it secret? Is it safe? — Gandalf

Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order —Larry Wall

We are prepared for any unforeseen events which may or may not occur — Governer George W. Bush, Jr

Given six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

Everyone has a scheme that will not work. — Gilb's Law

Adding more staff to a late project makes it later. — Brooks' Law

There is ALWAYS one more bug. — Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology

No software can be better organized than the team that creates it. — alternate formulation of Conway's Law

Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.	— Cheop's Law

OG Murphy's Law: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Data expands to fill the space available for storage. — Parkinson's Law

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Clarke's Third Law

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. — Corollary to Clark's Third Law

The inevitable result of improved communications between different levels in a hierarchy is an increased area of misunderstanding — Murphy

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. — Gallois' Law

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. — Gilb's Fourth Law

The first myth of management is that it exists. — Heller's Law

Utile Dulce — Fletcher Pence

It is not enough to do your best: you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. — W. Edwards Deming

No one brings up Agile Methodologies when things are going well. — Ralph Hockens

A [Web site] is never less than 90 percent complete, and never more than 95 percent complete. — Terry Baker

It is better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. — Glyme's Maxim

Whatever you did, that's what you planned. — Featherkile's Rule

Stop, look and listen.

Take 15 seconds to breathe.

No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. — Helmuth von Moltke

I Hanko. Do you Hanko? Does everyone Hanko?

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. — Mike Tyson

Great squareness has no corners. — Lao Tze

The game is afoot! — Sherlock Holmes

JavaScript: everything is an object

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. — Boris Beizer

Sufficiently advanced monitoring is indistinguishable from testing. — Ed Keyes

Reusable code usually turns out not to be.

Software delivery time is fundamentally nondeterministic.

It takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women are working on the problem.

If you are unable to test it, pass it as a parameter. This is called Dependency Injection.

UNIT TESTING IS NOT A CRIME

Software development is a collaborative game. — Alastair Cockburn

You can't call it refactoring if it changes user-facing behavior or look-and-feel.

It's not refactoring unless you have automated tests running against the code you are changing. Anything else is just rewriting.

No Blame.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

There's no time to stop for gas! We are already late! — Karen Donker

Solve the problem in front of you, then move on to the next problem.

Small changes are easier to reason about than large changes.

Don't build your house on sand.

You can't manage what you don't measure. — Peter Drucker

Complexity is much, much easier to produce than simplicity.

It takes a village to run a Web site.

If the foundation is rotten the house will fall down.

You get better quality by building better quality, not by "being careful."

Always put soap on a wood screw. — Karl Millmann

Measure twice, cut once.

If you can't test it, rip it out. — Boris Beizer

We all know unmastered complexity is the root of the misery. — Edsger Dijkstra

You don't know what you don't know.

Bring the pain forward.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

There will *always* be bugs in production.

Site reliability is everyone's job.

Testing is everyone's job.

Quality is everyone's job.

Celebrate Failure!

Mean Time To Recover > Mean Time Between Incidents

Detection > Prevention.

You cannot test quality into a product.

"Devops" means "establishing common ground between stakeholder groups."

There is no root cause. — John Allspaw

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the deadline is forgotten.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are not the most simple things in the world the most perfect, pure, innocent, and their properties the most wonderful? — Austin Spare

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

Hofstader's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstader's Law.

Zymurgy's Law: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. — Otto von Bismarck

Nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

There is no spoon.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.— John Gall

Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus

The only interfaces which are truly intuitive are rocks and mud. — John Dvorak

It takes a while to create nothing. — Ron Jeffries

Chance favors the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur

Picasso [says] of the new mechanical brains or calculating machines: “But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”—William Fifield

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. — Sherlock Holmes

When the going get weird, the weird turn pro. — Hunter S. Thompson

Great progress looks retrograde. — Lao Tze

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can. — Charles Darwin

The future exists today, it's just unevenly distributed. — William Gibson

The devil is in the details.

There are only two hard problems in programming: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. — Leon Bambrick

Programming is the only discipline where being off by a couple of orders of magnitude amounts to a rounding error.