Quack_Quotes

Low code movement convinces people who can drive that their skill with a screwdriver is all they need to build any car. Vibe coding is telling all drivers that they can design and build a good car. The quest to tell people they don't need to be smart continues.

2025-11-25T17:55:12.446-08:00

Never Believe you are always right, it's the worst way to find out you're wrong

2025-11-02T01:15:35.664-08:00

Everybody has an opinion. Too many times we are told every opinion is valid. But not all opinions are right. Someone may have an opinion that the sky is blue. Someone else will say that the sky is red. Are both wrong or both could be right at different times?

The difference between having an opinion and believing you're right is that you believe that your opinions are facts. Facts that are correct all the time. Even correct facts are not correct all the time. Take the sky example again. It's not always blue because sometimes you can get red. If you believe that the sky is always blue, what would you say when you see the sky is red at sunrise or sunset? Would you still claim that the sky is blue even though it's red? And how about if you learn that the sky isn't really blue because it's really the effect of gas particles in the atmosphere that's making it look blue?

Will you still claim you are right or will you learn something new?

those who refuse to learn from the past, wants to repeat it

2025-08-03T19:58:00.001-07:00

There's a lot to talk about in dealing with history. Some desire to remember, others desire to forget. It's not just the two sides of that desire but what it leads to. Some desire to remember to just fan the flames of long ago. Others desire to remember to learn and teach future generations of the mistakes of the past. Some desire to forget to claim innocence when the past is repeated. Some desire to forget to erase the pain of the past and move past with hope for the future.

why is it that people who ask not to be judged are those that pass judgment the most often

2025-06-17T12:36:00.001-07:00

A little pain today is needed for tears of joy tomorrow

2025-06-14T17:22:00.001-07:00

It can be hard to justify sacrifice when tomorrow is so uncertain. Sacrifice implies that we give up something today for something tomorrow. The more sacrifice we commit today implies that what's tomorrow is really valuable.

This means that sacrifice requires some form of faith and a lot of Hope. it's paradoxical but sacrifice can be easier if it's not tied in to something specific in the future. It's easier to focus on sacrifice itself or sacrifice for sacrifice's sake, then to be always calculating for something in the future. That is Faith

And when the reward comes, it will be much sweeter.

The differences between people being their 'honest self' and a better person is called Growing Up and Being Better.

2025-04-27T13:52:00.001-07:00

Seriously, if you're honest with yourself, you'd see that you were just being a dick. That's why living your best life needs you to be the best you.

when you spread kindness, the gift blooms into special memories

2025-04-05T19:30:00.000-07:00

This was inspired by a YouTube short that showed a kind skier helping a boy who was walking down the mountain after his friends left him because he could not snowboard down the mountain. He spent some time with the boy showing him the basics of snowboarding until he could do it for short distances. He didn't know the boy but he knew how he felt. his act of kindness, probably left a good memory for the boy

The rewards of our leaders asking us to do more with what we have are the results we achieve.

2025-01-23T22:45:00.001-08:00

Our achievement is their rewards.

What we achieve by doing more with less is the rewards our leaders reap from us.

Security is the race between the one building the wall higher and the one making the ladder taller.

2025-01-13T12:39:00.000-08:00

The distance between effort and success is faith

2025-01-12T11:10:00.000-08:00

Faith in your ability. Faith in yourself. Faith in the cosmos. Faith in luck. Faith in the Almighty. Have one.

The successful company does not produce good products, it produces satisfied paying customers.

2025-01-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

If the point of a company is to make money, then satisfied paying customers is an important part. It is when companies make money without customers is when the company is not responsible to anyone else and seemingly do not care about everybody else

Planning is the bridge to your goals

2025-01-12T11:07:00.000-08:00

You can meander down the path of uncertainty or run through the tall forest, taking turns at every whim. Or you can plant your food one in front of the other in a direction you choose. Both will lead you somewhere. One will lead you somewhere you want to be

The smartest people know a good idea when they see one

2025-01-12T11:06:00.000-08:00

Even amongst all the other ideas that are better and more acceptable

A Plan is the bridge from Problem to Solution

2025-01-12T10:52:00.000-08:00

When people ask me how do I start solving problems, my answer is make a plan. The plan may not work, it may not be affordable, and it may not be doable immediately. But make a plan. Change the plan and make a better one. Make a plan that you can start working on on. Find the people around you to help. Accept help.

Eventually, you will succeed. The problem will go away. Celebrate the success with the people that helped you get there. And then prepare for the next problem.

Anything that can fail, will fail... and at the worst possible moment

2025-01-12T10:49:00.000-08:00

Certainty of life. Expecting the worst means preparing for it. Don't worry about it. Do something. Doing something will keep your mind off the worse.

Your success doesn't become less when someone else gains success. They just got theirs sooner

2024-10-29T04:00:00.000-07:00

Success is not a finite resource, so don't be jealous when someone else succeeds. Their success is theirs and yours is yours.

There is no surprise when there is no expectation

2023-07-05T10:06:00.000-07:00

Getting upset with failure is a waste of time. You can't be surprised if you don't expect success every time. Being surprised with an unexpected outcome delays the focus on dealing with it. Being prepared could be easy as not expecting a certain outcome. Our efforts can be towards our desired goals. But we should be able to just deal with whatever the outcome to our efforts maybe.

Everybody is entitled to a wrong opinion

2023-06-05T11:52:00.001-07:00

I don't mean everyone should have a wrong opinion. I mean everybody will have a wrong opinion. The sooner everyone realises that, the sooner the wrong can be corrected.

Just because everyone can have an opinion, it doesn't make those opinion right. An opinion can be wrong just as much as it can be right. Changing an opinion is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of wisdom and the ability to learn.

Wisdom is the ability to tell the difference between caution and doubt

2023-05-06T15:45:00.002-07:00

We are always told to be cautious but at the same time told have no dobt in ourselves, to be confident in our decisions.. we are told not second-guess ourselves but Be Careful when we cross the Road. Doubt and caution are not the same sign over coin but rather the edges of it. The trick is to figure out whether this edge is at the top or bottom of the coin when the coin is stood up. It looks the same but our experience and knowledge will tell the difference. The real problem is when people don't want to know the difference

Getting out of a hole is the same, whether its the hole you fell in or the one you dug yourself and jumped in

2019-10-11T20:40:00.003-07:00

Lets face it. everybody has problems, It fell on you or you went looking for it. But the basic skill to get you out of it is the same. www.solveanythingin5steps.com is one my other sites talking about a set of skills to solve problems, It's a tool so that you can use for your own or use it to help someone.

The world will always feel empty because it's our emotions that fill the void.

2019-07-08T00:22:00.000-07:00

Originally, "the world is really empty, it's our emotions that make it full."
A variation "the world is really empty, it's our emotions that fill it."
People who feel the world is empty are often not interfacing or interacting with others, be it electronically or face to face. While face to face is better, honest communication via phones, social media or messaging apps can be as meaningful. Notice the use of the word 'honest'. Honest communication are filled with emotions. When humans are able to connect emotionally, whether it positive or negative, their worlds are no longer empty. Negative emotions have a place. It prevents us from falling prey, warning us of danger. Positive emotions are most fulfilling. The best people are able to take negativity and create positivity.

Those looking for something absolute in our lives, will find absolutely nothing.

2019-07-01T22:07:00.000-07:00

Absolute means perfection or something you can't find fault with or something that unconditional, not limited by any constraints that otherwise effects it lesser contemporaries. In almost everything in this world, imperfections can be found. In fact, what is perfect exists in ideals and ideas, in belief and in abstract. Sincere people looking the absolute are maybe looking for absolution. This gap is where the unscrupulous prey, fooling the pilgrims looking for release from guilt into subjugation of belief or even more guilt.

Being right some of time, fuels all full-time skeptics

2018-03-09T10:17:00.003-08:00

James Randi with some expensive art (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you are skeptical all the time, you would be right at least once. Being skeptic doesn't means being against anythings nor does it forward another alternative. Being skeptic is creating doubt around something but not enough to dismiss is outright. You can even go ahead dismissing something, knowing that if the that thing fails just once, you are proven right. Your position is save even if that thing is just right only one time. The skeptic can be right once to be proven true, the target of the skepticism, on the other hand, cannot fail.
The position is non-committal. If you are wrong, then you can just shrug it off because you didn't say it was wrong in the first place. But you have gloating rights when your skepticism is proved justified, even though only in hindsight.

Blessed are, those who share their blessings in silence

2018-03-01T16:19:00.002-08:00

In a world where vanity is a virtue, it can be hard to be sincere to oneself. Where the action of doing good clashes with the desire to be a visible example of good.

Being visible doing something means allowing others to join and do likewise. A kinship of common action creates community. In community, we find acceptance, affirmation and support.
While visible is the start to this path, the path is not without devious junctions. The hunger the first drives us can cloud good judgement. Being visible is becoming the example. And becoming the example does not require self-promotion but recognition. And while recognition should not be the goal, preparing to take advantage of recognition, is.
Be hungry still.

Photo by:
Elaine Casap

I don't share my knowledge because I know more, I know more because I share my knowldege

2018-01-15T17:14:00.001-08:00

Nothing is an example of the mastery of a knowledge than the ability to teach it. Answering questions increases the knowledge of both person who asked the question and the person providing an answer.
Conversely, hoarding knowledge is a sign of little one knows, and hoarding the knowledge is a way to keep something for themselves as a way to show some things others know not of.