“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted." — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Wise Sayings...or Not
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ST1100Y
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... you only thought the world would be better if it was run by women if you didn’t actually know many women. Or old women, at least.
Whenever there was an execution, and especially when there was a whipping, you always found the grannies in the front row, sucking peppermints... Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
Whenever there was an execution, and especially when there was a whipping, you always found the grannies in the front row, sucking peppermints... Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
ST1100Y
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... an example of something that feels absolutely illegal, but actually isn't:
Sitting on the couch while she cleans the house...
Sitting on the couch while she cleans the house...
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” —Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher
Uncle Phil
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If you ain't happy where you are, you probably won't be happy where you are going.
Happiness comes from within not from without. - Uncle Phil
Happiness comes from within not from without. - Uncle Phil
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"Nuts!"
Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe.
Bastogne.
Battle of the Bulge
22 December 1944.
Reply when called on to surrender to the Germans.
Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe.
Bastogne.
Battle of the Bulge
22 December 1944.
Reply when called on to surrender to the Germans.
ST1100Y
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I joined Facebook in 2016 and it has taught me a couple of things...
i) there some incredible brilliant people out there...
ii) they're vastly outnumbered...
i) there some incredible brilliant people out there...
ii) they're vastly outnumbered...
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” —Buddha
'It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.'
Gertrude Stein 1935
Gertrude Stein 1935
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” —Rita Mae Brown, feminist author
. “Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.” —Bill Murray
Universal laws
Parkinson’s law: Work expands to the time you give it. Shrink the time, shrink the task
Hofstadter’s law: Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you account for Hofstadter’s law.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by carelessness or stupidity.
The Preto Principle (80/20): Roughly 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort.
The Peter Principle: People get promoted until they reach a job they are bad at, then they stay there.
Hick’s law: More options means slower decisions. Cut the menu, decide faster.
Goodhart’s law: When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: The less you know, the more you overestimate how much you know.
Occam’s Razor: Assume the simplest explanation is the correct one until you have evidence that it isn't
Chesterton’s Fence: Don’t tear something down until you know why it was built in the first place
Brook’s law: If you add more people to a projector that’s already late, it’s going to be even more late, because we underestimate co-ordination costs.
Hitchen’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Cole’s law: it’s mostly shredded cabbage.
Green’s Law of debate: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.
Living in an old house law: Never change a light bulb unless it's a 3-day weekend.
Dave’s Law: Never start a “quick”project at the end of the day. It will always take at least 3 times longer than if you start it tomorrow.
Jesse's Law: whatever time you tell your wife the project will take, she will need to multiply by three to be more accurate.
Lego's Law: If you are looking for it, you will not find it, but if you are not looking for it, it will be everywhere you look.
Maslow's Hammer: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a f…….g nail.
Murphy’s law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
Freber’s Law: Murphy was an optimist.
Murphy’s Law 2: If you have a 50/50 shot to get something right, 90% of the time you’ll get it wrong.
Murphy's Law 3: the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question but to post the wrong answer.
Thissen’s Gastronomical Law: "The hardness of the butter is directly related to the crumbiness of the bread.”
St. Achualys law: there is always someone on the internet that knows better.
The Cliver Theorem - The further you are from the actual work, the easier it is to do.
Parkinson’s law: Work expands to the time you give it. Shrink the time, shrink the task
Hofstadter’s law: Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you account for Hofstadter’s law.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by carelessness or stupidity.
The Preto Principle (80/20): Roughly 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort.
The Peter Principle: People get promoted until they reach a job they are bad at, then they stay there.
Hick’s law: More options means slower decisions. Cut the menu, decide faster.
Goodhart’s law: When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: The less you know, the more you overestimate how much you know.
Occam’s Razor: Assume the simplest explanation is the correct one until you have evidence that it isn't
Chesterton’s Fence: Don’t tear something down until you know why it was built in the first place
Brook’s law: If you add more people to a projector that’s already late, it’s going to be even more late, because we underestimate co-ordination costs.
Hitchen’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Cole’s law: it’s mostly shredded cabbage.
Green’s Law of debate: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.
Living in an old house law: Never change a light bulb unless it's a 3-day weekend.
Dave’s Law: Never start a “quick”project at the end of the day. It will always take at least 3 times longer than if you start it tomorrow.
Jesse's Law: whatever time you tell your wife the project will take, she will need to multiply by three to be more accurate.
Lego's Law: If you are looking for it, you will not find it, but if you are not looking for it, it will be everywhere you look.
Maslow's Hammer: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a f…….g nail.
Murphy’s law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
Freber’s Law: Murphy was an optimist.
Murphy’s Law 2: If you have a 50/50 shot to get something right, 90% of the time you’ll get it wrong.
Murphy's Law 3: the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question but to post the wrong answer.
Thissen’s Gastronomical Law: "The hardness of the butter is directly related to the crumbiness of the bread.”
St. Achualys law: there is always someone on the internet that knows better.
The Cliver Theorem - The further you are from the actual work, the easier it is to do.
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. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” —Walter Lippmann