(defvar scratch-quotes
  (list
   "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson"
   "Look, I made a hat...where there never was a hat. - Finishing the hat, Sondheim"
   "Just fucking figure it out."
   "The universe is not here to please you. - Charles Murtaugh"
   "Your life is your life. The gods await to delight in you. - Bukowski"
   "Join the force and get a pension. - Salesman"
   "Beware of things that are fun to argue. - Eliezer Yudkowsky"
   "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the result. - Winston Churchill"
   "Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. - John Von Neumann"
   "Writing program code is a good way of debugging your thinking. - Bill Venables"
   "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. - Joe Biden quoting his father"
   "Most haystacks do not even have a needle. - Lorenzo"
   "Experiment and theory often show remarkable agreement when performed in the same laboratory. - Daniel Bershader"
   "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. - George Eliot"
   "It is astonishing what foolish things a man thinking alone can come temporarily to believe. - Keynes"
   "The purpose of computing is Insight, not numbers. - Richard Hamming"
   "Work on stuff that matters. - Tim O'Reilly"
   "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. - Teller"
   "You have to say something. It can't all be technique. - Woody Allen (on great actors)"
   ;; Paraphrased from a HN comment
   "Perfectionism is a failure to optimize across a complex goal space, settling, instead, on ignoring the difficult prioritisation problem in favor of over-optimizing a limited set of tangible and easily-defined goals over longer-run priorities" 
   ))