Classic Comments on the Quote

[Eureka]

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." — Murphy's Law

Spenser
February 11, 2015, 1:34 am
Murphy's Law? Really?

abra
June 27, 2015, 3:49 pm
It must be a different Murphy.

ruxpin66
July 3, 2015, 6:12 pm
Murphy Brown?

RS2
March 24, 2016, 7:57 am
Should be Wienberg's Second Law from "Mastering Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Technique for Software Developers"

LLapp
December 31, 2018, 7:13 pm
Any quote about programming that can be misattributed, will be.

[puzzleme]

An omadhaun is just an Irish boob.

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." — Peter Marshall

wvwoman
May 14, 2014, 4:15 pm
i first tried "small boobs"...i knew it wouldn't be right, but couldn't help making myself smile.
kb83
June 19, 2014, 8:10 am
small boobs inherited are worse than great boobs done. (Or are they?)
LLapp
September 20, 2016, 5:33 pm
No such thing as worse boobs; they are all beautiful.
montyb
April 10, 2017, 10:43 am
Aw, thanks for the kind word, LLapp. You certainly gave this boob a lift -- so to speak.
LLapp
July 16, 2018, 8:14 pm
Haha, monty.
puffybob
November 14, 2020, 12:49 am
He was great on Hollywood Squares
abra
December 5, 2021, 2:10 am
I loved the movie of A Man Called Peter, but I never read the book written by his wife. I did read her book Christie a couple times.
Wordigo
May 10, 2023, 11:53 am
This thread of comments is a booby trap.

[kb83]

There is a town in Northwest Minnesota called Climax. From Wiki: "Climax, founded in 1896, was named after a chewing tobacco company. The town's name has been a source of humor, and the slogan selected for the centennial was "Climax. More than just a feeling." Less well attested is the assertion that some unnamed local newspaper, reporting the death of a resident of a nearby town, ("Fertile, Minnesota"-- sic) ran a report of her passing under the headline Fertile Woman dies in Climax. "

[puzzleme]

Wordigo wins! (Lightly edited to remove solve times.)

"Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. " — Karl Kraus

elsiegirl
February 25, 2015, 8:20 am
He was clearly a morning person!
RS2
October 18, 2015, 1:47 am
Hear Hear!
marnita
September 15, 2016, 10:48 am
I'm very stupid in the morning before I have my coffee.
MamaB
November 22, 2016, 6:24 am
I'm Grumpy.
blueladyblue
December 23, 2017, 11:51 am
I think stupidity stays up late partying. Talk about your happenin' events...
firstdawn
January 11, 2018, 6:34 am
REPEAT!!! I just did this yesterday!
maradnu
January 28, 2019, 5:07 pm
That's why Trump tweets at 4am
imsoeasy
February 25, 2019, 9:36 am
Maradnu & Trump are together so much, they're like opposite twins.
Synonymous
July 20, 2020, 10:37 pm
imsoeasy that is a beautiful compliment you just paid maradnu. Anybody opposite Trump is not stupid. Nice.
DrCryptell
March 10, 2023, 9:41 am
Stupidity gets up early; genius never sleeps.
montyb
March 17, 2023, 6:02 am
So here I am at 6:00 AM (local time) playing cryptos.
Wordigo
September 22, 2023, 7:52 pm
^Early nerd gets the word. ;-)

[puzzleme]

Previous post reminded me of this: "You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone." - Rod Serling

[LLapp]

"The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination." — The War Cry

Anachronismatic
October 3, 2021, 5:29 pm
Driving down I-94 in one location, you see "Climax, 1 mile." Definitely false advertising.

[LLapp]

"I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me." — John Gotti


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Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education.
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kb83
July 24, 2018, 7:18 am
I strongly doubt this attribution.

LLapp
November 5, 2018, 3:12 pm
Please fix!! The attribution does not match the bio, and the bio is for someone who obviously never said anything like this (and probably never abused the conditional tense like this either).

marnita
January 12, 2019, 7:29 am
Is there some new way to report errors, now that there is no category for them with the emoticons?

MamaB
March 9, 2019, 4:28 pm
ERROR Let's try this.

imsoeasy
October 29, 2019, 12:58 am
Gotti said it. It was on secretly made FBI tapes.

mmfs83
April 24, 2020, 3:32 pm
It's still not fixed.

pickleball
August 3, 2020, 7:07 pm
The Teflon Don

mmfs83
August 14, 2021, 3:10 pm
still not fixed

LLapp
August 15, 2021, 2:59 am
Even the quote is looking at the photo and saying "That's not me."

rasbury
November 2, 2021, 11:46 am
He should have been sentenced to at least 10 years for abusing a tense, and another 10 for impersonating a mathematician and philosopher.

kb83
March 9, 2022, 12:17 pm
The Gotti-Whitehead negation: I am not what I am not looking to be.

kingbad
March 30, 2023, 9:24 pm
Ah, the infamous "Teflon Philosopher".

[oddcouple]

I don't remember commenting on this before, but I got some real chuckles reading it now.


"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled."
— Henry David Thoreau

oddcouple
January 26, 2016, 10:24 pm
I once took my Dyson out into the wilderness and nature hated it.
abra
April 14, 2016, 6:54 am
Do you love it though? We have two, because my husband loved the first and couldn't pass up a deal on the second. I think men like Dysons more than women, and way ore than nature, who abhors them.
LLapp
March 12, 2018, 4:31 pm
I'm happy with my Shark Navigator.
LLapp
October 16, 2018, 7:43 pm
Though I'm not sure where to put all sharks.
Elephino
November 16, 2019, 12:13 am
i kinda love how this comment thread went!
abra
July 18, 2020, 2:13 am
Still haven't taken either Dyson out into nature, but it is on my bucket list.
hrossa
May 20, 2022, 10:13 am
I have an old, old Kirby. That thing really sucks.
kitchenwitch
March 4, 2024, 1:24 am
Thoreau quotes are great bc you can be reasonably certain the word "nature" is in there somewhere

[LLapp]

"The better the gambler, the worse the man." — Publilius Syrus

tavi5280
October 21, 2016, 6:53 am
I bet "Gambler" is what throws everybody off!

mikehallbackhoe
December 31, 2016, 6:30 am
how much do you want to bet?

[LLapp]

"One who's our friend is fond of us - one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend." — Geoffrey F. Abert

bvwRedux
April 12, 2012, 11:45 pm
A true friend cuts but then stitches up the wound.

puzzleme
June 4, 2013, 4:56 am
Ouch!

insomniac
April 19, 2015, 11:59 pm
A friend will help you move. A true friend will help you move a body.

darkyr
May 24, 2016, 8:42 am
A friend knows where you buried the body- but someone who knows where you buried the body isn't necessarily your friend.

writeon
January 20, 2018, 1:55 pm
A friend goes back to make certain the body isn't breathing, but someone who isn't necessarily your friend will go back and do CPR.

[LLapp]

"To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell." — Ancient Proverb

Barnabas
May 1, 2014, 10:30 am
Sounds like a security nightmare.

[Eureka]

(Sometimes the photo is more interesting than the quote)

"Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." — Dr. David M. Burns

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abra
September 4, 2015, 10:58 am
I really wish he would shave his pixels.

LLapp
July 7, 2016, 6:15 pm
He was the first hologram ever to be appointed to be head of an academic department.

darkyr
November 23, 2016, 8:31 am
When a person wakes up in the morning and says, "I have a right to be wrong today", you have to be careful of everything they say or do. We call these people 'fuzzy people' in honor of the great, and wrong, Dr. Burns.

Beagle
May 12, 2017, 3:34 am
Anybody seen "Deconstructing Harry?" "Look at me, I'm out of focus!"

Fudi
February 11, 2020, 12:48 am
Beagle - yeah!! So funny!

hrossa
June 29, 2020, 11:49 pm
I laughed until my eyes watered! He can be forgiven for the turtleneck (I'm sure it was in style) and even his pablum aphorism (ditto), but not the pixels. Thanks Abra!

[LLapp]

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."— Karl Marx

abra
June 27, 2011, 3:38 am
Does this make sense?

ZeebaNeighba
June 30, 2012, 12:12 am
It makes sense after a couple of glasses of vodka

Lily H
May 2, 2013, 2:25 am
Something seems to be missing from this quote. It doesn't make sense as it is. It might be translated incorrectly.

nehiyawiskwewniya
September 13, 2013, 3:21 pm
A bloody mary would make me happy!

kb83
July 16, 2014, 9:07 am
In an on-line QA thread: ' I believe it is actually a mis-quote or possibly translations from German. It reads better...' "History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; "experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy". Marx, Letter to His Father (1837)

skoogie2
September 7, 2014, 2:48 am
thanks, kb, cryptos thank the most helpful that make the most people helped.

[Eureka]

"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. " — Ludwig Wittgenstein

bansaisequoia
June 30, 2009, 10:33 pm
I'm not going to go into the ring with Wittgenstein.

dovid1946
January 31, 2015, 3:35 am
he looks like one tough welterweight

LLapp
February 14, 2017, 7:39 pm
I'll never forget the time he knocked out Bertrand Russell in one round.

abra
July 16, 2020, 10:16 pm
You spend all those years getting a Thinkology Degree, and then you have to get into a boxing ring?

rasbury
May 22, 2021, 10:46 pm
I've talked with philosophers, and the discussions do indeed get pretty rough.

kb83
May 29, 2023, 6:17 pm
think like a butterfly, probe like a bee?

[LLapp]

Badbob cracked me up.


"Laughter is the first evidence of freedom." — Rosario Castellanos

BrainCellKeeper
April 15, 2017, 6:59 am
45 seconds Yeah, but really - how does someone solve this in 7 seconds? Is the computer doing it?

imsoeasy
January 2, 2019, 4:09 pm
Pro typists can do 50-80 WPM while the REALLY FAST can go up 120 WPM. The best I could ever do, keeping errors down (that was important when I learned using an eraser for corrections), was around 30-35. This quote has 7 words. nanrich did it in 7 seconds. That equals 60 WPM. Also, some people's brains just work faster kinda like computers. So, I guess you could say that this was solved by a fast nanrich computer.

montyb
April 29, 2020, 12:38 pm
Words per minute is a meaningless statistic for this site. To use such a figure on this quote, one would have to make 42 keystrokes including spaces and punctuation. However, with automatic cursor advance and auto fill-in, one only needs 17 keystrokes to complete it.

badbob
January 9, 2022, 5:35 am
The Manatee Typing Academy measured our speed with calendars.