Favourite Quotes

[Iain Aschendale]

As JLT said, the whole "Know Nothing" bit was more about opsec than proud ignorance. Not that I consider them to be a model to emulate, but there were some... issues at my job a few years ago, and someone organized an online group with the name: "XXX Company Employees Against Issue YYYY." Of course there was an infiltrator, and of course they screenshotted everything, but the group name made plausible deniability pretty implausible. Kinda why Ike didn't call it Operation Invade Normandy on the Morning of June 5th (unless the weather is bad, in which case we'll go on the 6th) (p.s. the whole thing about Calais is a decoy) and went with "Overlord" instead. Plus it saved ink and typewriter ribbon.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I just read this just now -

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge — Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

He's right, you know. The more you learn, the more questions you want to ask, and the more you realise how much you don't know. People don't know much are confident about the little that they do know.

"A theory need not entirely be correct, to be useful".
( I've heard this before but have no person to credit to.) A quick Google search yielded nothing.

Not sure who said it either, but absolutely. A scientific theory provides a framework to think about a hypothesis or a group of hypotheses, test them, and prove or disprove them. Even if not every hypothesis is true, the theory still holds up and can be adjusted.

There's a good reason for the fact that there's no such thing as a Scientific Theory of Divinity.

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

~ Max Planck

(I think I spelled his name right...)

Absolutely right, well done. (Max Plank wood knot be a good name).

 

[Louanne Learning]

The more you learn, the more questions you want to ask, and the more you realise how much you don't know

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

 

[GrahamLewis]

"I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky." Sharon Olds.

 

[Louanne Learning]

The sole purpose of human existence,” Carl Jung wrote in his reflections of life and death in 1957, “is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

 

[Donnie]

The sole purpose of human existence,” Carl Jung wrote in his reflections of life and death in 1957, “is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

With out consciousness it's all darkness.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Without beer, it's just a day watching big guys in uniform chase a ball across a field.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Without beer, it's just a day watching big guys in uniform chase a ball across a field.

I'll see your baseball and raise you one more: cricket. It is, without a doubt, the most boring game in existence.

Not only is it watching guys in uniforms chase a ball around a field, it lasts not just one day but FIVE. And it can STILL end in a draw.

Many people think that chess is boring, but a tournament game of chess can end within two hours. Compare that with cricket. No contest.

What's more, a good chess player can create exciting sacrifices and combinations that end with the opposing king trapped, or wrestle his opponent, carefully and elegantly, into a position where any move immediately loses, and you end up thinking: "How the hell did he do that?"

Meanwhile, an entire solar system can arise and collapse in the time it takes for a game of cricket to be over. I'll take chess any day.

 

[Donnie]

I'll see your baseball and raise you one more: cricket. It is, without a doubt, the most boring game in existence.

Not only is it watching guys in uniforms chase a ball around a field, it lasts not just one day but FIVE. And it can STILL end in a draw.

Many people think that chess is boring, but a tournament game of chess can end within two hours. Compare that with cricket. No contest.

What's more, a good chess player can create exciting sacrifices and combinations that end with the opposing king trapped, or wrestle his opponent, carefully and elegantly, into a position where any move immediately loses, and you end up thinking: "How the hell did he do that?"

Meanwhile, an entire solar system can arise and collapse in the time it takes for a game of cricket to be over. I'll take chess any day.

Does anyone temember, Bowling for Dollars?

 

[Louanne Learning]

Does anyone temember, Bowling for Dollars?

I do! But I have to admit I haven't thought about it in many years!

 

[GrahamLewis]

"Sometimes a man realizes that his occupation does not fit in with his ambitions, that in fact when he made his choice he had not the courage to take the risks he was called to take. In such a case the rebirth of the person may have to be paid for by a sacrifice of material security, Such an honest choice, however late it comes, is as fruitful as the 'provisional' life is sterile."

Paul Tournier, The Meaning of Persons pp. 207-208

(Harper & Row 1957).

I've found that very comforting in my later years, but this morning I am thinking of @Homer Potvin as I recalled it. How's it going, Homer?

 

[Homer Potvin]

"Sometimes a man realizes that his occupation does not fit in with his ambitions, that in fact when he made his choice he had not the courage to take the risks he was called to take. In such a case the rebirth of the person may have to be paid for by a sacrifice of material security, Such an honest choice, however late it comes, is as fruitful as the 'provisional' life is sterile."

Paul Tournier, The Meaning of Persons pp. 207-208

(Harper & Row 1957).

I've found that very comforting in my later years, but this morning I am thinking of @Homer Potvin as I recalled it. How's it going, Homer?

Aside from the nicotine cessation pitching every system in my body sideways, doing dandy! Thanks for asking.

 

[Heartlet Happer]

Aside from the nicotine cessation pitching every system in my body sideways, doing dandy! Thanks for asking.

"There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."
- Architect. Matrix Reloaded.