David Foster Wallace: You’ll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
* It might ‘caring’ rather than ‘worrying’, I’m not sure, and can’t be bothered finding the book to check it.
It’s also possible that DFW didn’t coin this phrase.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Or, if you like it more pithy: “The difference between theory and practice is larger in theory than it is in practice.”
I love too many to have one favorite but I might translate something decent from french : “Absence is to love, what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the smaller and kindle the bigger.” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (or I think so)
I really like that one, thanks for sharing.
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Harry S. Truman
I lost the game
Comparison is the thief of happiness.
I have many favorites, but this comes to mind often.
Fear shrinks the brain.
Is another good one.
Fear is the mind-killer
I like that. Also, “if they want you to be afraid, they don’t want you to think.”
Don’t let quotes tell you what to think.
- Gnorv
- Wayne Gretzky
“LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?”
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority.
— Matt Lee, https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opinion-github-vs-gitlab
If you fall asleep with an itchy butt you’ll wake up with a smelly finger.
Confucius was wise.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
That’s pretty funny
“Change and comfort rarely come together”
- Unattributed quote from a manager I work with
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Blood of the Martyr”
Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Anarchist”
Oi oi oi. Me gotta hurt in here. Me smell a ting is near. Gonna bosh, and gonna nosh, and then the ting will disappear.
— Uthden Troll
Life is a comedy to those who think, but a tragedy to those who feel.
- Horace Walpole
