May 26

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Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ~ Joseph Addison

selected by Kalki

2005

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ~ Rachel Carson

selected by Kalki

2006

When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. ~ Ward Cunningham (born 26 May 1949)

selected by Kalki

2007

I'm not a fan of classification. It's very difficult to come up with a classification scheme that's useful when what you're most interested in is things that don't fit in, things that you didn't expect. ~ Ward Cunningham

proposed by Kalki

2008

[edit] Suggestions

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder. ~ Ward Cunningham

3 Kalki 06:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
3 Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:14, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 21:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 05:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

You have so many things in the background that you're supposed to do, there's no room left to think. I say, forget all that and ask yourself, "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?" ~ Ward Cunningham

3 Kalki 06:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
3 Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:14, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 21:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 05:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Charming to the last. You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life. ~ from Star Wars Grand Moff Tarkin Peter Cushing (born May 26)