tags: #MOC #index #publish links: [[Language and Literature Resources]], [[Philosophy]] created: 2020-09-09 Wed --- # Quotations and Aphorisms [[When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers]] [[It scales if it's hard to get wrong, not hard to get right]] [[Permanent happiness, coming from how you feel about what you own]] [[I used to judge my success by how many unpleasant things I could force myself to do]] [[The past is never dead. It’s not even past]] [[There is never just one cockroach]] [[Kurt Vonnegut on death and permanence of moments]] [[The problem with betting on disaster]] [[Searching for something missing, missing something left behind]] [[Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty]] [[There are only two hard things in computer science]] [[Do not let doubt reap what was sowed in faith]] [[We can solve any problem by introducing an extra layer of indirection]] [[Live deliberately]] [[The perils of being a jittery, ferocious animal]] [[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow]] [[Dave Akin's laws of spacecraft design]] [[You can't get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees]] [[We are punished by our sins, not for them]] [[Some days you're the pigeon]] [[It is not greed that drives the world, but envy]] [[If someone tells you something's wrong, they're usually right]] [[Trapped in the amber of this moment]] [[Sheldon Kopp quotes]] [[Visitors are like fish]] [[The world is divided into those who think they're right]] [[One reorg a day keeps the manager away]] [[Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!]] [[Don't believe everything you think]] [[A fish doesn't know what water is - no anti-environment]] [[So you'd rather test a new and poorly understood virus on them instead]] [[I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork]] [[You play cards the way you should live your life]] [[When the tide goes out, that's when you find out who's been swimming naked]] [[You're gonna look ridiculous]] [[Happiness makes up in height, what it lacks in length]] [[Years ago you trusted my opinion]] [[You know what I hate most about being a public figure]] [[Interrogative intonation in declarative sentences]] [[So predictable that he wouldn't pass a Turing test]] [[If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't tell the truth]] [[Over-engineering is poison. It's a lie you have to remember so you don't contradict it]] [[It's a sterile walled garden]] [[Focusing on the past is ego. Focusing on the future is pride. Focusing on the present is humility.]] [[I'll be arriving at a rate of already here]] [[Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal]] [[Your presence is not required, but your absence will be noted.]] [[Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away]] [[We don't set our standards by what other people do]] [[It’s not flexibility of thought but rigidity of thought that causes irrationality and stupidity]] [[On Finding Your Purpose - Letter by Hunter S. Thompson]] [[Article - All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people]] [[Learn to rest, not to quit]] [[Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.]] [[Shaming is not free speech. It’s hate speech.]] [[Eventual Inconsistency]] [[In the short term the stock market is a voting machine]] [[Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think]] [[xkcd - Things Everyone Knows - 10,000 people each day hear about it for the first time]] [[It's not a lie if you believe it]] [[Poe's law - unflagged parody is insufficiently legible to some]] [[Listen twice as much as you speak]] [[If you stuck a lump of coal up his arse, you'd have a diamond in a fortnight]] Related: [[Silly phrases in the media]]