Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 45 “You can outsource your thinking but you cannot outsource your understanding. ” ―  Yacine Brahimi     G ained wider attention after Andrej Karpathy quoted and repeatedly cited it.     Related:   “ What I cannot create, I do not understand. ” ― Richard Feynman   Quote of the Week 20/2026 “The map is not the territory. ” ―  Alfred Korzybski   Knowledge can be taught; lived understanding cannot.   See also:  Erfahrung // Experience

Quote of the Week 44 “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ” ― B. F. Skinner     See Quote Investigator for background information.     Related:   “ The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ” ―  Sydney J. Harris     “ We do not fear the AI that thinks like a human, but humanity that thinks like an AI. ” ― Julian Goldstahl ( German AIngst )     “ Wir fürchten nicht die KI, die denkt wie ein Mensch, sondern die Menschheit, die denkt wie eine KI. ”  

Quote of the Week 41 “ Never write if you can speak;  never speak if you can nod;  never nod if you can wink .” ― attributed to   Martin Lomasney    Variant : “ Never write if you can speak;  never speak if you can nod;  never nod if you can blink .”     Extended version : “ ...; never wink if you can do nothing .”   Modern variant : “ Never write when you can talk.  Never talk when you can nod.  And never put anything in an e-mail. .”   ― attributed to Eliot Spitzer       Abbreviated variant :   “ Don’t write when you can talk;  don’t talk when you can nod your head. ” ― Martin Lomasney   Long variant : “Don't write anything you can phone.  Don't phone anything you can talk.  Don't talk anything you can whisper.  Don't whisper anything you can smile.  Don't smile anything you can nod.  Don't nod anything you can wink.” ― Earl Long

Quote of the Week 40 “ You got me wanting more when less is what I need. ” ―  Richard Macintyre, SIIGA , "The LCD" - Song Lyrics       Interpretation by ChatGPT:   SIIGA’s “The LCD,”  is  a song about   digital overstimulation and the strange emptiness it creates . At its core, it is about a person caught in a feedback loop: screen → stimulation → desire → more consumption → less satisfaction → more stimulation. The lyrics repeatedly juxtapose   wanting   and   needing . The speaker wants   more , but senses that what they actually need is   less . That makes the song less a straightforward anti-technology statement than a portrait of   addiction to excess —more content, more attention, more connection, more distraction. The   “LCD”   itself works nicely on two levels: LCD = Liquid Crystal Display   — the screen through which this world is experienced. LCD = Lowest Common Denominator   — potentiall...

2nd Quote of the Week 39 “ A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. ” ― Bob Dylan     h/t Jacka  

Quote of the Week 39 “ Doing is like wanting, but bolder. ” ― Alan Bipe (free translation of a German  Sponti saying )      

Quote of the Week 37 “ There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection. ” ―  John Andrew Hull , Manchester Orchestra , “ The Silence ” ( Song Lyrics )     Triggered by my switch back to Spotify from Apple Music — with all my old playlists intact. Related: Quote of the Week 3/2021 " You can go anywhere but you are where you came from. " ―  John Andrew Hull, Manchester Orchestra, “ The Silence ” ( Song Lyrics )

Quote of the Week 36 “ Do it or do not do it — you will regret both. ” ― Søren Kierkegaard     Triggered by Shreyas Doshi 's  repost on X: You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices,… https://t.co/y9BEyLjsc1 — blue (@bluewmist) August 25, 2026   Full quote (per Claude.ai): Here's the full passage from  Either/Or  (1843). "Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world's foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yours...

Quote of the Week 35 “ Headwinds build character, tailwinds build stories. ” ―  Cycling motto     Triggered by a recent tweet quoting a Northern German proverb: “ Gegenwind formt den Charakter. ” ―  Norddeutsches Sprichwort Leider ist meine Woche #Helgoland schon zu Ende und ich bin auf dem Rückweg. Lassen Sie mich noch eine letzte Anmerkung machen, warum ich seit frühester Kindheit das Meer, die Inseln und insbesondere diese Insel auf hoher See mag. Vielleicht erklärt es das ein oder andere 😉 pic.twitter.com/c2uuKM78bU — Key Pousttchi 🇪🇺 (@keypousttchi) August 21, 2026

Quote of the Week 33 “ Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. ” ―  Austin Kleon   ( Steal Like an Artist )     More quotes  from  Steal Like an Artist :      “ In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. ”       “ You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. ”   “ Don’t worry about doing research. Just search. ”   “ When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. ”   “ Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts. ”