# Sample Quotes file. 40 Linux quotes followed by 8 categories (10 quotes each)
# 28mar2026: added 27 Yogi-isms
# 17apr2026: added 60 bird facts
# 15may2026: added 18 Matrix Quotes
# 14jul2026: added 1 new category (Tech Quotes), 1 quote

# Linux Quotes
Sudo make me a sandwich.
Real hackers use cat to read mail.
Reboot is not a solution, it's a confession.
alias rm='echo "Nope."'
Uptime is the new bragging right.
Your kernel called. It wants a break.
Permission denied. Again.
I void warranties for fun.
The shell giveth, and the shell taketh away.
Don't panic, just check /var/log.
Code like there's nobody watching.
Unix is user-friendly. It's just picky about its friends.
My other shell is zsh.
tar -xzvf your feelings
Escape the matrix: Ctrl+C.
To err is human. To debug, divine.
When in doubt, strace it.
Systemd is watching you sleep.
I came. I saw. I segfaulted.
Home is where the tilde is.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Keep calm and sudo apt-get install happiness.
There is no place like ~
I'm root, I'm a god.
The best way to predict the future is to create it in the terminal.
God does not care about your uptime, but your kernel does.
Open source is a mindset, not a license.
Linux users do it in terminal.
Life is too short for rm -rf /
Every command is a potential adventure.
In Linux we trust, in Windows we despair.
Use the force, Luke: sudo.
If it compiles, it runs.
There is no Ctrl+Z in real life.
chmod +x your dreams.
Shell scripting: where magic meets madness.
Don't hate the terminal, hate the bugs.
Talk less, grep more.

# Tech Quotes
Microsoft should switch to the vacuum cleaner business where people actually want products that suck. 

# Motivational Quotes
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Believe you can and you are halfway there.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

# Wisdom Quotes
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

# Creativity Quotes
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
You cannot use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

# Life Lessons
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.
It is not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters.
Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

# Success Quotes
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
The harder you work for something, the greater you will feel when you achieve it.
Dream big and dare to fail.
Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.
The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.
Opportunities do not happen. You create them.
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.

# Love and Kindness Quotes
Where there is love there is life.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Happiness is only real when shared.

# Courage and Resilience Quotes
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
In the end, we only regret the chances we did not take.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are for.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

# Humor and Perspective Quotes
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.
Everything is funny, as long as it is happening to somebody else.

# Yogi-isms (most not actually said by Yogi Berra): 27 of the best
It ain't over 'til it's over - Yogi Berra
It's deja vu all over again - Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by watching - Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded - Yogi Berra
Never answer an anonymous letter - Yogi Berra
It gets late early out here - Yogi Berra
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical - Yogi Berra
When you come to a fork in the road, take it - Yogi Berra
I never said most of the things I said - Yogi Berra
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel - Yogi Berra
Slump? I ain’t in no slump... I just ain’t hitting - Yogi Berra
I knew the record would stand until it was broken - Yogi Berra
Take it with a grin of salt - Yogi Berra
You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours - Yogi Berra
I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house - Yogi Berra
So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face - Yogi Berra
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four - Yogi Berra
The future ain’t what it used to be - Yogi Berra
He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious - Yogi Berra
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility - Yogi Berra
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did - Yogi Berra
If people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them - Yogi Berra
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore - Yogi Berra
Pair up in threes - Yogi Berra
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else - Yogi Berra
We made too many wrong mistakes - Yogi Berra
I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary - Yogi Berra

# This bird facts section is from David Liedle's MIT Licensed bird script
# Specifically his facts.txt at https://github.com/DavidLiedle/bird

Crows can recognize individual human faces and hold grudges for years.
A group of crows is called a murder. A group of ravens is called an unkindness.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
A hummingbird's heart beats around 1,200 times per minute.
Starlings in a murmuration turn so fast that no single bird leads.
Owls can rotate their heads up to 270 degrees.
Penguins propose to each other with pebbles.
Kiwis lay eggs that can weigh a quarter of their body weight.
Puffins mate for life and return to the same burrow every year.
A woodpecker's tongue wraps around the inside of its skull to cushion the brain.
Pigeons can recognize themselves in mirrors.
Parrots can live over 80 years.
Albatrosses can sleep while flying.
The bee hummingbird is smaller than a bumblebee.
Ostriches have the largest eyes of any land animal.
Flamingos are born gray. They turn pink from eating shrimp.
Chickens can dream.
Ravens can solve multi-step puzzles designed for seven-year-olds.
The peregrine falcon can dive at over 240 miles per hour.
Emperor penguins huddle in shifts so no single bird freezes on the outside.
Some songbirds learn their songs the way humans learn language.
Bowerbirds decorate their nests with blue objects to attract mates.
Arctic terns migrate from pole to pole each year, over 44,000 miles round trip.
Nightingales sing louder in cities to be heard over traffic.
Sparrows take dust baths like chickens.
The hoatzin chick has claws on its wings and can climb trees.
A pelican's beak can hold more than its stomach.
Swifts stay airborne for up to ten months at a time.
Crows give gifts to people who feed them.
Parrots in flocks seem to give each other names.
A robin's red breast is a territorial display, not a decoration.
Magpies are one of the few non-human animals known to mourn their dead.
Geese fly in a V because the bird behind gets a lift from the one ahead.
The lyrebird can imitate chainsaws, car alarms, and camera shutters.
Swallows return to the same nest year after year.
Hummingbirds drink more than their body weight in nectar every day.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The bar-tailed godwit can fly eleven days straight without stopping.
Chickadees can remember thousands of food cache locations.
Male bowerbirds arrange their collections by color.
Ravens can plan for future events, not just react to present ones.
An eagle's vision is about eight times sharper than a human's.
Chickens have a real pecking order.
Parrots appear to feel jealousy.
Swans have over 25,000 feathers.
Falconers have used the same terminology for over 800 years.
The cassowary can kill a person with one kick.
The kakapo is a flightless, nocturnal parrot that smells faintly of honey.
Pigeons were used to carry messages in both world wars. Some got medals.
Mockingbirds sing at night when they're looking for a mate.
House finches get their red color from their diet.
Birds are descended from dinosaurs. You put up a bird feeder for tiny theropods.
Pigeons can do basic math.
Young vultures play with sticks the way puppies play with toys.
A flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
The hooded pitohui is one of the few known poisonous birds.
Ducks have waterproof feathers because of a gland near their tail.
Great tits in the UK learned to open milk bottles on doorsteps and taught each other.
The mallee fowl builds a compost mound as an incubator and measures its temperature with its beak.
A barn owl can catch a mouse in total darkness by sound alone.

# Curated list of 18 Quotes from the Matrix

"No, Lieutenant, Your Men Are Already Dead." - Agent Smith

"Tell Me, Mr. Anderson...  What good is a phone call if you're unable to speak?" - Agent Smith

"Human beings are a disease, A cancer of this planet. You're a plague, and we are the cure." - Agent Smith

"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization..." - Agent Smith

"Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You've had your time. The future is *our* world, Morpheus. The future is our time". - Agent Smith

"Never Send A Human To Do A Machine's Job." - Agent Smith

"I'm Going To Enjoy Watching You Die, Mr. Anderson!" - Agent Smith

"You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Anderson..." - Agent Smith

"Only A Human Mind Could Invent Something As Insipid As Love!" - Agent Smith

"I hate this place. This zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer". - Agent Smith

"It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink, and every time I do I fear that I have somehow been infected by it." - Agent Smith

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals." - Agent Smith

"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not." - Agent Smith

"You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area." - Agent Smith

"There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease." - Agent Smith

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy". - Morpheus

"These people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged". - Morpheus

"And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it". - Morpheus

# End of quotes list