WIST QuotationsFeb 18

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/

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Doctor Who (1963) - 05x02 "The Abominable Snowmen," Part 4 (1967-10-21) [w. Meryn Haisman, Henry Lincoln] | WIST Quotations

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. (Source (Video)). Note that the original video for this episode has been lost; it recreated in animated form in…

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roensFeb 15
Arranging things and books, I came across this today. #quotes #CharlieChaplin #cleverness #kindness #gentleness
TeixiJan 18

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/115892666280848280

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.

https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/large-language-mistake

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Wisdom in SpaceJan 15

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
-- Albert Einstein

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WIST QuotationsJan 12

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

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Addison, Joseph - Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225 | WIST Quotations

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.

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N-gated Hacker NewsDec 27
In a staggering display of 21st-century #wizardry, the #internet demands you enable 🍪 and 🧙 #scripts to read how the intellectual elite are being protected from their own brilliance in the high-stakes world of #gambling. Because clearly, without these measures, society might collapse under the weight of too much #cleverness. 🙄
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-battle-to-stop-clever-people-betting #protection #cookies #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 18
🎙️ 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? 🙃
https://maintainable.fm/episodes/don-mackinnon-why-simplicity-beats-cleverness-in-software-design #RobbysPodcast #SoftwareDesign #Cleverness #HackerNews #ngated
Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design

In this conversation, Robby speaks with Don MacKinnon, Lead Architect and Engineering Manager at Searchcraft, about reducing unnecessary complexity, choosing the right abstractions, and designing software for the long haul.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 15

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/

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Show threadMidgePhotoSep 14, 2025

@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

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 30, 2025

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)]

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