Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man… living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

- George Denis Patrick Carlin (12 May 1937 - 22 June 2008)

Where interoperability information is protected as a trade secret, there may be a lot of truth in the saying that the information is valuable because it is secret, rather than being secret because it is valuable.

Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for Competition Policy, speaking at Open Forum Europe.

My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says that your life depends on your power to master words.

- Arthur Scargill

Some days you wake up and immediately start to worry. Nothing in particular is wrong it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble.

- Jenny Holzer (via kottke.org).

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Cliff Buxton - “The Dish”