Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. -- Alan Kay

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by IAmNotAFix » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

l0b0 wrote: post #95

"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire The world is far more complex than any human could possibly fathom, and reducing complex subjects to witticisms usually works against those subjects, whether intentional or not.

L’ABBÉ. — Madame, madame, un bon mot ne prouve rien.

LE COMTE. — Cela est vrai ; mais un bon mot n’empêche pas qu’on ne puisse avoir raison.

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The Clergyman -- Madam, Madam, a witty saying proves nothing.

The Count -- That is correct; but a witty saying doesn't prevent being right.

https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%AEner_du_comte_de_Bou...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

[Pacifism] is only possible to people who have money and guns between themselves and reality. -- George Orwell

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

A genius is the one most like himself. -- Thelonious Monk

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by chrismatheson » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

iheartblocks wrote: post #52

"If you don't have time to do it right, make sure you have time to do it again" --My great-great grandfather

"Buy cheap, Buy twice" I think seems related :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:09 PM UTC

A small error at the beginning of something is a great one at the end. -- Thomas Aquinas

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:09 PM UTC

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. -- John Adams

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

Dear Lord, give me chastity and self-restraint ... but not yet, O Lord, not yet! -- Saint Augustine

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by leephillips » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

Try and live your life so that you never end up inspiring a warning label. -- knodi123’s Dad http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8541004

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by jhelphenstine » Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

Veritatem Dilex ("I delight in the truth")

Truth _is_. I strive to find more accurate forms to know it by.