Wit and Wisdom
Wit and Wisdom
Below are some aphorisms that I have found interesting and
I hope you will too.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
-- The dread pirate Roberts (Wesley) from "The Princess Bride"
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
-- Robert Benchley
If it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. We don't have to waste our time trying to make sense of it.
If someone doesn't want to be with you or act healthy, it isn't a reflection on your self-worth. It reflects his or her present circumstances.
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd... but you can be happy if you've a mind to.
Don't ask the question if you don't want to hear the answer.
It is better to remain silent and thought dumb, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
-- Ambrose Bierce
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. -- Mark Twain
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you think it will take, even if you take into account Hofstadter's Law."
--Douglas R. Hofstadter, computer scientist and recursion fan.
Murphy's Law (as applies to computers): If a system is designed to be fault tolerant, you must have a high tolerance for faults.
Murphy's Tenth Corollary: Mother Nature is a bitch.
There is nothing wrong with a computer that a little competence on the part of the operator wouldn't fix.
Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do.
Machines should work, people should think.
Fallible men design and build fallible machines.
"People in systems do not do what the systems say they are doing."
-- John Gall - SYSTEMANTICS
The only constant in the universe is change... except from vending machines.