Quotes

For Dummies

Submitted by tw on September 27, 2021 - 12:26pm

New DIY manual: “Condescension Toward Neuro-Atypical Persons For Dummies”

— TJW

tw

Technology

Submitted by tw on April 18, 2017 - 10:19am

Relationships are always more important than technology. This is as true in the technology business as it is at the dinner table.

— TJW

Depredations

Submitted by tw on August 1, 2014 - 10:53am

As an empire ascends, it commits its depredations on other peoples; as it declines, on its own.

— TJW

Enemies and friends

Submitted by tw on August 27, 2013 - 10:03am

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Furthermore, the friend of the enemy of my enemy’s friend is my brother in law’s cousin, whom I actually met independently at volleyball once.

Uncertainty

Submitted by tw on March 28, 2011 - 9:11pm

I dislike uncertainty! That’s one thing I’m sure of.

— Katherine

Knowable and unknowable distinctions

Submitted by tw on November 30, 2010 - 11:13am

Need, or Want?
Can’t, or Won’t?
The buck stops here:
Do, or Don’t.

— TJW

Mirror

Submitted by tw on December 8, 2009 - 9:54am

If I borrow my friend’s mirror, it still looks like me.

— TJW

Certainty

Submitted by tw on December 21, 2008 - 9:52am

I kinda think I should be more certain about things, but then again it may be too early to tell.

— TJW

Small pointy thing

Submitted by tw on October 26, 2008 - 9:05pm

When computer programmers see a small pointy thing, we assume it’s the tip of an iceberg or the thin end of a wedge. But sometimes it’s just a small pointy thing.

— TJW

Handcraft a passenger jet

Submitted by tw on June 4, 2008 - 5:57pm

T: “So all we have to do is A, B, C, …, X, Y, and Z.”

J: “And then we can handcraft a passenger jet!”

— Jake Borst