Widow: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s when you hit the ground.
Camel is a horse designed by a committee
The criminal justice system is rarely just, and often criminal.
Yanis Varoufakis: anybody who tells you economy is a science is either a fool, or is trying to fool you
Yanis Varoufakis: debt has nothing to do with the money, it’s about power
There’s no wall to put our back against… Except each other.
Mr. Robot: Giant shitstorm that rains turds later will leave a trail of clouds in the sky spelling out your name
Economists are people who can tell you tomorrow why the things they predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
Jack Ryan: Geography is destiny. World is the kiln and we are the clay.
JFK: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Arcane: We build our own prisons. Bars made of oaths, codes, commitments. Walls of self-doubt and accepted limitation. We inhabit these cells, these identities and call them ‘us’.
A calculator that isn’t 100% accurate at returning correct answers to inputs is 100% useless.
The Orville: It’s a good rule in life never to apologize. The right kind of people never want apologies and the wrong kind take advantage of them.
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles
Mahatma Gandhi: Every Revolution starts with a single act of defiance
Friends: We’ll party up vladnik Style
Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”.
Henry Kissinger: it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.
Henry Ford: whenever you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re right
It’s not the big that eat the small, it’s fast that eat the slow.
Trust is earned in drops, but lost in buckets.
Resident alien: I’m just gonna stare in this fire until my eyes dry out.
Go on: Imagine if I had a really good excuse to leave right now.
Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
Garak: truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination
Kirk, snw: the dog who caught the car.
Banshee, Job: cause you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they ain’t all out to get you
Dutch. Killjoys s02e06: I sense a reluctance and yet a desire to be center of attention.
For all mankind: You did strap your ass on top of a quarter million tons of high explosive for government pay
For all mankind: Show me somebody who didn’t fail and I will show you somebody who didn’t take risks.
The price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.
Ted lasso, s01e04, Jaimie: “if his brain was on fire, I wouldn’t piss in his ear”
Youth is wasted on young.
Can’t be your mentor without occasionally being your tormentor
Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt, 2002):
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Billions, Axelrod: the greats never sacrifice the important for the urgent they handle the immediate problem and still make sure to secure the future
Billions, Chuck: Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings." – George Will
Billions, Chuck: Towns fire managers. Owners just give them the bad news
Fallout: when something is dead it’s usually because it deserved to die (NCR)
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few
Oscar Wilde: The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
WM: This is my job… shave it if its hairy.
Interviewer: How much milk do these cows give?
Farmer: Which one? The Black one or the brown one?
Interviewer: Brown one.
Farmer: A couple of litres per day.
Interviewer: And the black one?
Farmer: A couple of litres per day.
Interviewer(naturally a bit flummoxed): I see. What do you give them to eat?
Farmer: Which one? Black or brown?
Interviewer: Black.
Farmer: It eats grass.
Interviewer: And the other one?
Farmer: Grass.
Interviewer(now annoyed) : Why do you keep asking which one when the answers are the same?!
Farmer: Because the black one’s mine.
Interviewer: Oh, and the brown one?
Farmer: It’s also mine
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said “a faster horse” – Henry Ford.
In war, politicians give ammunition; the rich give the food; and the poor give their children.
Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler than that.
The Rookie: young horses are skittish and excitable. to calm them down, they partner them with older horses to tech them how to check themselves. Eventually the come around. it’s the natural order of things.
The Rookie: you can only fracture something so many times before it’s impossible to put back together
The Rookie: brave as the first man who ate an oyster
The Rookie: people are good when it’s easy
“Steal an apple and you’re a thief. Steal a kingdom and you’re a statesman.” - Literal Disney villain
Democrats are like rich uncle that promises to take you to Disney world, but always something comes up. Republicans are like grumpy uncle that says he doesn’t have money to take you to Disney world, but you later find out he went without you.
Neugierig: If I were to summarize what I learned in a single sentence, it would be this: we talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.
Buddha: 3 things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
I always pretended to be someone I wanted to be until finally I became that someone or he bacame me
Security is cover, Obscurity is concealment
Not believing that you’re going to die is what gets you killed
A cryptographer friend tells the story of an amateur who kept bothering him with the cipher he invented. The cryptographer would break the cipher, the amateur would make a change to “fix” it, and the cryptographer would break it again. This exchange went on a few times until the cryptographer became fed up. When the amateur visited him to hear what the cryptographer thought, the cryptographer put three envelopes face down on the table. “In each of these envelopes is an attack against your cipher. Take one and read it. Don’t come back until you’ve discovered the other two attacks.” The amateur was never heard from again.
https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/1015.html
Starship troopers: Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has
Japan has unveiled a new name for days that reach 40C (104F) or above, after the country experienced its hottest summer on record last year.
The term - kokushobi - has been translated as “cruelly hot”, “brutally hot” or “severely hot” day by Japanese and international media.
Youth is wasted on young