Random Quotes

[mevinyavin]

I am dissatisfied with the current state of DDF - or the following tiny, completely irrelevant part of it: the random threads.
When, oh when will people stop putting QUOTES in the random PICTURE threads? This greatly disturbs my sense of order.
As such, I am hereby launching the random quotes thread. Mods, please spend sixty hours moving all the misplaced "pictures" into this thread. Users, please, for the sake of my blood pressure, please please post your quotes here instead of there.
(Please note that there is a thread for inspiring quotes. THIS thread is only for quotes that are not inspiring. Got it? (Please do not be bothered by the sound of three-hundred users clicking the ignore thread option)

"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie."

-Miyamoto Musashi

[AsherO]

Isn’t it ironic that Gaza is running out of everything except rockets

[Euclid]

Isn’t it ironic that Gaza is running out of everything except rockets

"Let them eat rockets"

[Yehuda57]

"Let them eat rockets"

Delicious

[cholent]

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer

[sguitarist18]

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer

Cunningham's Law?

[cholent]

Cunningham's Law?

Correct

[Dawie]

Delicious

and there i was thinking that stuff only existed in Artscroll translations (Mishna and Daf Yomi)

[Euclid]

Correct

You're wrong

[mevinyavin]

This laptop is so BUSINESS it laid off 500 people and still gave itself a 6-figure bonus. - Woot listing for a refurb Latitude 7xxx. https://computers.woot.com/offers/dell-latitude-7400-14-fhd-business-laptop
(I would only say that myself about a 9xxx series Latitude, though.)

[mevinyavin]

Someone mentioned confirmation bias.

Excerpt from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (google it):

The Defence Professor stayed quiet a moment, and then said, “Mr Potter, what steps have you taken to investigate the Headmaster’s character?”

“Not many,” said Harry. He’d only recently realized…“Not nearly enough.”

“Then I will observe,” said Professor Quirrell, “that you do not find out all there is to know about a man by asking only his friends.”

Now it was Harry’s turn to walk a few steps in silence on the little used dirt path that led back to Hogwarts. He’d really been supposed to know better than that already. Confirmation bias was the technical term; it meant, among other things, that when you chose your information sources, there was a notable tendency to choose information sources that agreed with your current opinions.

[CountValentine]

Someone mentioned confirmation bias.

Excerpt from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (google it):

That is why you should not just watch CNN or Fox but both as an example.

[mevinyavin]

‘Lenny’ (which appeared in the January 1958 issue of Infinity Science Fiction) was written under unusual circumstances. I am, now and then, overawed into going on vacation against my peevishly expressed desires not to. My wife, who can be quite overawing considering she is such a sweet, soft-voiced thing, is quite insensitive to my explanations that vacations are very hard on my nervous system because I am restless in the absence of a typewriter.

She said calmly, ‘Take a typewriter with you.’

So I did, and for a couple of hours each morning I took it out on the lawn of the resort hotel (my wife sweetly and soft-voicedly insisting on the sovereign virtues of sun and fresh air – ugh!), placed it on a rickety table, weighted down various sheets of paper with stones and got to work.

Not a morning passed without interruptions by someone wanting to know what I was doing. I explained and when they finally understood that I was working, they regarded me with no attempt at concealing their hostility. The word went round that I was a dangerous radical attempting to undermine the Great American Vacation.

-Asimov, The Rest of the Robots, intro to one of the stories. I wonder what he would have thought of today's vacation environments, with high-speed internet and remote log-ins.