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Ask HN: What's Your Favorite Quote?

by cateblanchett on 12/1/22, 9:35 PM with 5 comments

Mine is either Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is original." Or Einstein's "no worthy problem is solved on the plane of its original conception."

  • by bediger4000 on 12/1/22, 10:29 PM

    Statistically, real threats are rare, but ambition and corruption are common. Overwhelmingly, the purpose of censorship is not the protection of national security, but the protection of individual careers. That's not ideology, but mathematics. Because there are very, very, few true national secrets, but a huge amounts of information that someone would like to bury for one reason or another.

    Seth Finkelstein

    I'll also note that "nothing is original" is probably not original. After all, Goethe once said "Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of them again", https://www.inspirationalstories.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-...

  • by cc101 on 12/2/22, 1:58 AM

    The reason that women live so much longer than men is to make up for the time they spend waiting in line to go to the bathroom.

  • by hitpointdrew on 12/1/22, 9:40 PM

    “Give me liberty, or give me death.”

  • by uraji on 12/1/22, 10:04 PM

    Terry Pratchett — 'Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.'

  • by techdragon on 12/2/22, 7:29 AM

    Tradition is peer pressure from the dead.