Quotable Quotes

[Anthony101]

"The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom." Voltaire

 

[Newman]

Those capable of making good converters and solid state electronics, do.
Those not capable of making good sounding solid state power amps, make tube amplifiers.
Those not capable of making tube amplifiers, make loudspeakers.
Those not capable of making loudspeakers, make cables.
Those not capable of making cables, sell rocks said to dramatically improve sound.

- Bruno Putzeys

Let me reward one quotable audio quote with another:

"It was the perfect high end audio product: Exotic, inefficient, expensive, unavailable, and toxic." Nelson Pass

 

[thewas]

Let me reward one quotable audio quote with another:

"It was the perfect high end audio product: Exotic, inefficient, expensive, unavailable, and toxic." Nelson Pass

All time classic , here is also another variant of it:

 

[Anthony101]

"Once you teach an audiophile to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like in a review."

 

[MediumRare]

So what 3 attributes were you claiming the Velodyne DD18 had all 3 of?

It's badass, what else is there?

 

[HammerSandwich]

In your case, it has the most important attribute any piece of hardware can: "already paid for."

 

[Newman]

But…. isn’t “already paid for” just a synonym for “taken for granted”?

 

[DaleBerlin]

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast - Oscar Wilde

 

[HammerSandwich]

But…. isn’t “already paid for” just a synonym for “taken for granted”?

I have $52 in my Paypal account if you're that bored with it.

 

[egellings]

I view serendipity as more of a happy accident than an aptitude.

 

[pavuol]

"Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end."
Jack Kerouac

 

[MediumRare]

I view serendipity as more of a happy accident than an aptitude.

Modern thinking is that systems can be managed to enhance the likelihood of serendipity. Similarly one's ability to perceive the value of a particular serendipitous event can be greater or less than another's and one can develop one's skill at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity

 

[Blaspheme]

It's badass, what else is there?

Some like big butts, but taste isn't universal.

I'll contribute:

"In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they aren't"

Often attributed to Yogi Berra (not being from the US myself, hence ignorant of baseball, I thought this was a deliberate misspelling of the cartoon character until today) but Snopes reckons it appeared first (slightly different wording, but my version is better) in a book on programming Pascal by Savitch, likely originating from Jan van de Snepscheut. The latter is such a cool name that I'm good with that attribution.

 

[Martin]

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
- Saint Augustine