I have 3 but would LOVE to hear more…

You can always have more but you can’t have less

This one’s from my dad and it really stuck with me. You can, and really should, apply this to any intoxicant.

On the pitch is off the streets

This is about getting restless kids, or kids who might be in a bad situation, into sports.

The axe forgets but the tree remembers

Translation on this one: People who cause hurt are less likely to remember than those it affected.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 hours ago

    I can tell you one that is super applicable to the current era:

    Garbage in, garbage out.

    It’s a 1980s programmer’s adage in response to the belief by business owners that computers could solve their problems without data, or with limited data, or with inaccurate data.

    Cut to the era of LLMs in which we’re asking glorified autocomplete to answer deep, philosophical or religious questions, or complicated political questions or complex logical dilemmas, when they were trained on Reddit and 4Chan.

    There’s a 1970s corollary;

    The computer is always right.

    This is from the tendency of clerks and bureaucrats to, when confronted with conflicts between reality and the data fields in a computer database, favor what the magic box says.

    Again, we’re seeing magical box thinking in the present day.