Ideas
WTLB/T (Words To Live By/Truisms)
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
My software never has bugs. It only develops random features.
Real life wasn't as glamorous as my web page made it sound.
Better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Improvise, adapt, and overcome
Fate is a cruel mistress
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one
It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
We must become the change we want to see
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
That government is best which governs least.
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
Democracy means: Sticking to the rules of the game, even when the referee is not looking.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
Justice will only exist where those not effected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The right to be respected is won by respecting others.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
