blog/content/quotes/random/index.md

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title = "Random Quotes"
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tags = ["quotes", "graffiti", "education", "misery", "distributed systems",
"the day the earth stood still", "atheism", "religion", "following",
"regrets", "money", "perfection", "practice", "nerds", "totalitarianism",
"materialism", "god", "time", "privacy", "guests", "proverbs", "russian",
"incompetence", "insanity", "instagram", "leadership", "marriage"]
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> If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and laid them end to
> end, they'd be a lot more comfortable.
-- "Graffiti in the Big Ten"

> "There is no education that is not political. An apolitical education is
> also political because it is purposely isolating."

> "People change and forget to tell each other."
-- a marquee at a fucking carpet cleaning store

> "Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."

> "Preserve the old, but know the new."

> "Distributed Systems people do it loosely coupled."

> "Gort, klaatu nikto barada."
-- The Day the Earth Stood Still

> "Atheism and truth, 2 words 1 meaning."

> "Zisla's Law:
> If you're asked to join a parade, don't march behind the elephants."

> "Working here is like a pregnancy. After nine months you wish you hadn't
> come."

> "If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows."
-- Yiddish saying

> "When you go out to buy, don't show your silver."

> "If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?"

> "Freeing the nerds was what got us here"

> "Workers of the world, relax!"

> "Materialism: buying things we don't need with money we don't have to
> impress people that don't matter."

> The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply
> lack cognitive meaning.

> "Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space."

> Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations:
> Negative expectations yield negative results.
> Positive expectations yield negative results.

> "I’m being tracked by so many websites that if I get kidnapped, I expect to
> be rescued by a team of web developers rather than the police."
-- u/jaso151 on Reddit

> "Nezvannyi gost'--khuzhe tatarina."
> [An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion]
-- Russian proverb

> "The dynamic I'm subjected to doesn't become less toxic just because I can
> take it."

> "Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it."

> "I suspect the people responsible are the kinds of men who get MBAs
> specifically to boss around people who are smarter than they are."

> "Talk is cheap because supply always exceeds demand."

> "If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your
> total incompetence."

> "Seeing is believing. You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed it."

> "The world is an 8000 mile in diameter spherical pile of shit."

> "Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball."

> "Blame Saint Andreas -- it's all his fault."

> "Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids."

> "Morale will continue until the beatings improve."

> "Law of Probable Dispersal:
> Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed."

> "All that glitters has a high refractive index."

> "Aren't Instagram influencers just Ads in human form?"
-- hackiechan@mastodon.social

> "Don’t say condemn it because it can happen to you one day. Condemn it
> because it is wrong."
-- mysticashi@mastodon.social

> "He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself."

> "To err is human.
> To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human."

> "Stay together, drag each other down."

> "A company is known by the men it keeps."

> "The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the
> brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not
> wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do."

> "Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."

> "Words must be weighed, not counted."

> "Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."
-- motto of the Christopher Society

> "Feminism, n.:
> A political position which seeks to rebuild society so that
> both men and women are treated as women wish to be treated."

> "A religion without a goddess is half-way to atheism."

> 'A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember
> your birthday when you never look any older?"'

> "The alternative to cooperation is not competition. It is annihilation."

> Ryan's Law:
> Make three correct guesses consecutively
> and you will establish yourself as an expert.