2024

This years Quote Roundup is longer than any other year, as I collected over 200 quotes this year, 2x more than last year.

• You face your fear, because your goal demands it. — Alex Honnold
• When you want to help people, you tell them the truth, when you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell
• Debugging is being the detective in a crime movie where you are also likely the murderer. — Internet
• If you have a good marriage, there is nothing like it. If you have a bad marriage, there is nothing like it. — Overheard Comment
• Bureaucracy is an uncontrollable chain of boss pleasing. Instead of pleasing your boss, you should be pleasing the customer. — Derrick
• Scars are like tattoos but with better stories — Joe Smith
• The intelligent know they might be ignorant, yet the ignorant are confident that they are not. — Dunning-Kruger effect
• If you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch(theseHands)” — David Kowis
• Anytime you can make someone feel strong emotions, you have power over them. — Brandon Sanderson
• A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. — Proverbs 22:3
• Fear doesn’t cause people to be dumb, stupidity causes people to be dumb. You are causing fear for yourself by refusing to read. That is dumb making you afraid. It is not being afraid making you dumb. You live in a time where you have access to all of human knowledge on the internet. Some people are deciding not to take part in that, and then being afraid as a result. Take part in that, be an actual driver in your own life. Stop letting social media do that for you. — Thor (Pirate Software)
• “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. — Richard Guindon
• Sleep is a free trial of death, but with advertisements — Internet
• Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge — Carl Jung
• I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do… And, for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’. — Bob Newhart
• Staring into the misery machine all day is probably bad for your health — Internet
• A bullet may have your name on it, But a grenade says “to whomever it may concern” — PerunAU (YT)
• If you don’t care that the thing you are sharing is probably a lie, and it serves your agenda, you are probably not one of the good guys. — @RyanMcBethProgramming (YT)
• The best thing about cats is they slap the shit out of things that don’t make sense to them. — Internet
• Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds like an amazing time if you don’t know what either of those two things are. — Internet
• It’s not a data breach, it’s a surprise backup. — Internet
• I don’t think other people are lying they are just socially conditioned — Brother Galaviz
• Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don’t know how anything works — Internet
• Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay… small acts of kindness and love — Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
• The “me too” movement brings a whole new meaning to “all hands” meetings. — Internet
• Worry, is like paying a debit you don’t owe. — Mark Twain
• What do you call a bug that has ears and a tail, a cat-er-pillar — Matthew Wippler
• A really impactful moment for me was understanding that flight was invented before the science of how flight works, and most things are invented in this order - just go and tinker! you don’t need to develop a unified theory first — @thdxr (Twitter)
• I feel like toilet paper, I’m either on a roll, or I’m taking crap from somebody. — Internet
• “If intelligence is the ability to respond to any argument, wisdom lies in knowing which arguments to respond to, and which parts of an argument to respond to.” — Bo Seo
• So… long story short, “harder” is a terrible safe word. — Internet
• My mind is like my internet browser 19 tabs are open 3 of them are frozen and I have no idea where the music is coming from — Internet
• I tell students … if they just learn to communicate better — both in writing and in person — they increase their value at least 50%. If you can’t communicate with somebody, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark. Nothing happens. — Warren Buffett
• If you give good people bad information, they make bad decisions — Yuval Noah Harari
• When my mother first moved to Japan, she tried to jay walk while pushing a stroller on an empty residential street. She was immediately stopped by an old, well dressed Japanese man who solemnly told her in perfect English “the downfall of society begins with the individual” — @lillybilly299 (Twitter)
• You diminish the joy of the giver, when you refuse the gift offered.
• The I more read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am, that I know nothing. — Voltaire