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.
The graveyard is full of irreplaceable people.
No one is really irreplaceable
A few from the file I keep:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut
I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned. - Richard Feynman
Give a man a mask and he’ll show you his true face. - Oscar Wilde (paraphrased)
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - C.S. Lewis
Magic is science you can’t explain. Science is magic you can. - My Daughter
You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts
What you do to achieve your goals must never become more important than the goals themselves. - Anonymous
The days are long but the years are short.
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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.
All true except GIGO originated in the '50s.
“This too shall pass”
For the people suffering in the world
And equally for the people not suffering.
Unless they paying your bills, pay them bitches no mind. Rupaul Charles
moment of bliss can ruin your life. it sounds much better in original language but idea translates well.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
“The graveyard is filled with people who had the right of way”
*If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"
If you find yourself in a bad place, don’t make it worse.
Civ 6 player?
… maybe…
“Know your audience”
I’ve always liked the catch-all “Don’t be shit. This means you!”
Also: “You can add salt, but never remove salt.”
Also: “Before you speak, ask yourself what you want to achieve when you speak.”
Also: “You can’t control what happens to you, only how you react to it.”
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Haven’t seen it yet.
You can make no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life. -Picard
