"You are probably a bystander in someone's most precious and most memorable photo."

-- unknown 

 "Not all those who wander are lost"

--Tolkien

 “Remember to wander. Let curiosity be your compass. It remains Day 1.”

-- Jeff Bezos

You can do it all. You just can’t do it all at once.

-- ?

Encryption algorithms are much like sports cars as the more letters and symbols around the name the better it seems to be.

--Brettski

 "Our future is up to us"

-Enola Holmes (and Millie Bobby Brown 🙂)

"You are so not perfect in the most perfect way ❤️"

~Brettski

 "When you think you know something, that is the most perfect barrier against learning"

~Frank Herbert

(From God Emperor of Dune)

People like to make a bucket list, so I made one too. After adding a bunch of items I changed the 'B' to and 'F' and I'm done with that now.

--Modified from Jerry Seinfeld by Brettski

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

"The trouble is, you think you have time."

-- Jack Kornfield

I have many troubles in my life. Most of which have never happened.

-- Mark Twain

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

-- Steve Uzzell

"code is like farts... you can only stand your own."

--Ron Gilbert

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

-- J.R.R. Tolkien

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

--Stephen Hawking

Focus determines reality

-- Some Jedi

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

— Mahatma Gandhi

Boredom is the enemy

-Brettski

“With cigarettes, my wife and I, we made a deal. We only smoke after sex. I've got the same pack now since 1975. What bothers me is my wife. She's up to three packs a day.”

-Rodney Dangerfield

"Culture: You end up becoming what you settle for"

-- Heard on Mitch Shue's keynote at AWS Summit, Chicago 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhNvhJGOhSw) Unknown original source

"Ways in which things go right are special cases of the ways in which things go wrong." 

~John Allspaw

You cannot remove command and control through command and control

--Unsure

“You Cannot Be What You Cannot See.” 

    — Reshma Saujani

Emails are a suggestion but not an obligation.

- James Altucher