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  1. A quotation from Mervyn Haisman

    JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
    THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
    JAMIE: What are you going to do?
    THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.

    Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]

    More about this quote: wist.info/haisman-mervyn/4611/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #seconddoctor #mervynhaisman #anticlimax #cleverness #cunning #doctorwho #plan #rock #scheme

  2. A quotation from Mervyn Haisman

    JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
    THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
    JAMIE: What are you going to do?
    THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.

    Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]

    More about this quote: wist.info/haisman-mervyn/4611/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #seconddoctor #mervynhaisman #anticlimax #cleverness #cunning #doctorwho #plan #rock #scheme

  3. A quotation from Mervyn Haisman

    JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
    THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
    JAMIE: What are you going to do?
    THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.

    Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]

    More about this quote: wist.info/haisman-mervyn/4611/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #seconddoctor #mervynhaisman #anticlimax #cleverness #cunning #doctorwho #plan #rock #scheme

  4. A quotation from Mervyn Haisman

    JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
    THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
    JAMIE: What are you going to do?
    THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.

    Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]

    More about this quote: wist.info/haisman-mervyn/4611/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #seconddoctor #mervynhaisman #anticlimax #cleverness #cunning #doctorwho #plan #rock #scheme

  5. A quotation from Mervyn Haisman

    JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
    THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
    JAMIE: What are you going to do?
    THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.

    Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]

    More about this quote: wist.info/haisman-mervyn/4611/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #seconddoctor #mervynhaisman #anticlimax #cleverness #cunning #doctorwho #plan #rock #scheme

  6. RE: mastodon.social/@dw_innovation

    Large Language Mistake

    Current AI models are not on the path to artificial general intelligence

    Update: One week after The Verge published my essay, it was cited in a federal district court decision to support the proposition that LLMs do not reason the way that humans do.

    buildcognitiveresonance.substa

    #theverge #thomasriley #humanintelligence #llms #ai #agi #cogneurosci #neuroscience #machineintelligence #reasoning #understanding #cleverness #computing #stochasticparrot #prompting #vibecoding #ml

  7. RE: mastodon.social/@dw_innovation

    Large Language Mistake

    Current AI models are not on the path to artificial general intelligence

    Update: One week after The Verge published my essay, it was cited in a federal district court decision to support the proposition that LLMs do not reason the way that humans do.

    buildcognitiveresonance.substa

    #theverge #thomasriley #humanintelligence #llms #ai #agi #cogneurosci #neuroscience #machineintelligence #reasoning #understanding #cleverness #computing #stochasticparrot #prompting #vibecoding #ml

  8. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81313…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #cleverness #cunning #discretion #prudence #wisdom

  9. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81313…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #cleverness #cunning #discretion #prudence #wisdom

  10. 🎙️ In the latest episode of "Robby's Never-Ending Podcast Playlist," Don MacKinnon schools us all on how #simplicity triumphs over that pesky 'cleverness' in software design. 🤓 Because who needs #innovation when you can just do less, right? 🙃
    maintainable.fm/episodes/don-m #RobbysPodcast #SoftwareDesign #Cleverness #HackerNews #ngated

  11. 🎙️ In the latest episode of "Robby's Never-Ending Podcast Playlist," Don MacKinnon schools us all on how #simplicity triumphs over that pesky 'cleverness' in software design. 🤓 Because who needs #innovation when you can just do less, right? 🙃
    maintainable.fm/episodes/don-m #RobbysPodcast #SoftwareDesign #Cleverness #HackerNews #ngated

  12. A quotation from John Peel

    I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

    John Peel (b. 1954) British writer [pen names Nicholas Adams, Rick North, J.P. Trent, John Vincent]
    Timewyrm: Genesys, ch. 10 [The Doctor] (1991)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/peel-john/4443/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnpeel #doctorwho #seventhdoctor #cleverness #ego #error #mistake #selfimage

  13. @Sustainable2050
    But the EVs charge at different times.
    And mostly when industry and other transport isn't taking much power.
    Most of ours, at home, will take 7kW, BTW. I'd quite like 3-phase.
    Having some smartness in the system as a whole is clearly good, but I think we get bigger surges from kettles in the TV advert breaks.

    #EV #cleverness

  14. @Sustainable2050
    But the EVs charge at different times.
    And mostly when industry and other transport isn't taking much power.
    Most of ours, at home, will take 7kW, BTW. I'd quite like 3-phase.
    Having some smartness in the system as a whole is clearly good, but I think we get bigger surges from kettles in the TV advert breaks.

    #EV #cleverness

  15. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    Desire to appear clever often prevents our becoming so.
     
    [Le désir de paraître habile empêche souvent de le devenir.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶199 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #appearance #cleverness #facade #perception #pretense #seeming #self-defeating

  16. A quotation from Herbert Hoover

       The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
       Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
       Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.

    Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
    Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #badgovernment #cleverness #corruption #freegovernment #goodgovernment #government #graft #immorality #integrity #morality #necessaryevil #politics #publicfigure #publicservice #publicservant

  17. A quotation from Herbert Hoover

       The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
       Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
       Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.

    Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
    Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #badgovernment #cleverness #corruption #freegovernment #goodgovernment #government #graft #immorality #integrity #morality #necessaryevil #politics #publicfigure #publicservice #publicservant

  18. A quotation from Herbert Hoover

       The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
       Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
       Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.

    Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
    Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #badgovernment #cleverness #corruption #freegovernment #goodgovernment #government #graft #immorality #integrity #morality #necessaryevil #politics #publicfigure #publicservice #publicservant

  19. A quotation from Herbert Hoover

       The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
       Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
       Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.

    Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
    Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #badgovernment #cleverness #corruption #freegovernment #goodgovernment #government #graft #immorality #integrity #morality #necessaryevil #politics #publicfigure #publicservice #publicservant

  20. A quotation from Montesquieu

    I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
     
    [J’ai toujours vu que, pour réussir parfaitement bien dans le monde, il alloit avoir l’air fou et être sage.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1004 / 1013 (1720-1755)

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78458/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #dolt #fool #madman #pretense #success #underestimation #wisdom #cleverness

  21. A quotation from Montesquieu

    I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
     
    [J’ai toujours vu que, pour réussir parfaitement bien dans le monde, il alloit avoir l’air fou et être sage.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1004 / 1013 (1720-1755)

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78458/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #dolt #fool #madman #pretense #success #underestimation #wisdom #cleverness

  22. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard (1740 ed.)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/77…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #badcompany #choices #cleverness #companions #company #courtier #goodcompany #philosopher #wisdom

  23. A quotation from Ben Franklin

    Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard (1740 ed.)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/77…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #badcompany #choices #cleverness #companions #company #courtier #goodcompany #philosopher #wisdom

  24. A quotation from John Hemry

    You’d be amazed how quickly traditions and policies can be undermined by men and women with clever minds, clever tongues, and no principles.

    John G. Hemry (b. 1956) American naval officer, author [pseud. Jack Campbell]
    Triumphant, ch. 16 (2019) [as Jack Campbell]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hemry-john-g/77117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cleverness #corruption #customs #norms #policy #principle #shame #tradition #undermining

  25. Ah, the tragic plight of the tech-savvy martyr, doomed to endless toil by their own #cleverness. 🙄 Apparently, knowing how to automate batch files is akin to carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. 😂 Somewhere, #Sisyphus is laughing and rolling his eyes.
    notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-k #techhumor #automation #struggles #martyrdom #HackerNews #ngated

  26. Ah, the tragic plight of the tech-savvy martyr, doomed to endless toil by their own #cleverness. 🙄 Apparently, knowing how to automate batch files is akin to carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. 😂 Somewhere, #Sisyphus is laughing and rolling his eyes.
    notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-k #techhumor #automation #struggles #martyrdom #HackerNews #ngated

  27. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  28. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  29. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  30. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  31. A quotation from Heschel, Abraham:

    «
    When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/heschel-abraham/2571

    #quote #quotes #quotation #admiration #age #caring #cleverness #compassion #intelligence #kindness #maturity #power

  32. In Italy, the insistence that only people 'born as women' compete in a beauty pageant has been protested by more than 100 trans men who have entered the pageant. “...their positions are so ridiculous that we were able to pull off a national campaign with a smile on our face, laughing at their struggle to keep up with so many subscriptions from ‘female from birth’ people, just as they requested.”

    #GoodNews #LGBTQ #Trans #Cis #Women #Men #Protest #Cleverness #Heroism

    thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/tra

  33. In Italy, the insistence that only people 'born as women' compete in a beauty pageant has been protested by more than 100 trans men who have entered the pageant. “...their positions are so ridiculous that we were able to pull off a national campaign with a smile on our face, laughing at their struggle to keep up with so many subscriptions from ‘female from birth’ people, just as they requested.”

    #GoodNews #LGBTQ #Trans #Cis #Women #Men #Protest #Cleverness #Heroism

    thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/tra

  34. Good morning. 🍃🍃🍃

    May the 4th be with you 😂. I just learned that the day is Star Wars Day. Is it a national holiday? Should it be? I saw many posts on Mastodon this morning about Star Wars Day but with Star Trek mems, and assume they were intentional lighthearted snubs from Star Trek fans, so Live Long and Prosper.

    Pigeons are persistent, and clever. I thought that I partially foiled their efforts to eat all of the bird seed with my hanging feeders because they have to hover to get at the seed. it takes too much energy to do for long. But they devised a way to get the seed by taking turns and knocking seeds to the ground. They also, I believe, have lookouts to keep an eye on the feeders and report when they get filled, amazing. I still try to discourage them from hanging around.

    “Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ”
    ― Mark Twain

    #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #foliage #cleverness

  35. Good morning. 🍃🍃🍃

    May the 4th be with you 😂. I just learned that the day is Star Wars Day. Is it a national holiday? Should it be? I saw many posts on Mastodon this morning about Star Wars Day but with Star Trek mems, and assume they were intentional lighthearted snubs from Star Trek fans, so Live Long and Prosper.

    Pigeons are persistent, and clever. I thought that I partially foiled their efforts to eat all of the bird seed with my hanging feeders because they have to hover to get at the seed. it takes too much energy to do for long. But they devised a way to get the seed by taking turns and knocking seeds to the ground. They also, I believe, have lookouts to keep an eye on the feeders and report when they get filled, amazing. I still try to discourage them from hanging around.

    “Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ”
    ― Mark Twain

    #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #foliage #cleverness