adam shand

There’s nothing I love more than hearing, watching, or reading someone doing the one thing they can’t not do. — Mark Pilgrim

With English spelling, like Perl, there is often more than one way to do it. But with French, as I understand it, if you misspell something (or, god forbid, mispronounce it) they throw cheese at you then surrender preemptively. — Ponty @ Slashdot

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. — John Kenneth Galbraith

This is the worst thing I've done since I stole Douglas Rushkoff's 1802 penny. — Unknown Apologist

Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash. — J.D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey”