Great one-liners from PF members

[fresh_42]

Please try to remain on topic and avoid political statements, disguised or not.

I'll try to set the thread on its rails again:

If you can't make a quantitative prediction, you don't really have a theory.

 

[sysprog]

If one does not perceive gravity then it has no effect. The experimental evidence can be found in Road Runner cartoons. $-$ @jbriggs444

 

[sysprog]

First, if you are angry enough to think you might have done damage to a house, you need to seriously consider anger management. $-$ @Vanadium 50

 

[PeroK]

You really not barking up the wrong tree with this so much as you are barking up a tree that doesn't even exist.

 

[phinds]

Approaches and becomes are not synonyms.

 

[fresh_42]

Approaches and becomes are not synonyms.

Did you recognize the irony considering your avatar?

 

[jbriggs444]

Did you recognize the irony considering your avatar?

I know nothing. Nothing!

 

[sysprog]

 

[sysprog]

. . . is anyone here pedantic enough . . .

How do we measure that?

Whatever the SI unit of pedantry is, I'm sure a different unit is in common use in the USA. $-$ @Vanadium 50

 

[fresh_42]

I will say if you need to invoke Wittgenstein to try and figure out what the OP means, it might be a sign that there might be a little bit of a clarity shortage.

 

[Vanadium 50]

At greater than 200 posts I think it is pretty evident that there has been no stifling of the discussion whatsoever.

 

[PeroK]

You probably should look into such compulsions, because some of what you say is just not so.

 

[phinds]

I HAVE to include these two of favorites of mine even if they are my own:

it is unfortunate that you "understand" this since it is totally wrong.

I recognize every single word in that post, but strung together in that particular order, I can't make any sense out of them at all.

 

[Vanadium 50]

"I don't want you to get the impression that it's just a question of the number of words. Getting them in the right order is just as important."

 

[Infrared]

Even though it was directed at me, I still have to appreciate it.

Of course, if the student has never seen a determinant before, this is as useful as a Siamese-Swahili Dictionary. ("Once you know one, you can teach yourself the other!")

 

[sysprog]

Even though it was directed at me, I still have to appreciate it.

Of course, if the student has never seen a determinant before, this is as useful as a Siamese-Swahili Dictionary. ("Once you know one, you can teach yourself the other!")

@Vanadium 50 (I think that he may be not-so-secretly one of the Vanir) is a very witty guy $\dots$

 

[gmax137]

@Vanadium 50 (I think that he may be not-so-secretly one of the Vanir) is a very witty guy $\dots$

that's @Fervent Freyja maybe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanir

 

[Vanadium 50]

not-so-secretly one of the Vanir)

"One of the Vanir" is an anagram of "Not heaven for I".

For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.

 

[sysprog]

that's @Fervent Freyja maybe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanir

Freya/Frigga cousin (she uses aliases)
[non-rigorous use of rightarrows in this post]
$\mathrm {vanir \rightarrow vana \rightarrow}$ 'dis' $\rightarrow$ goddess $\rightarrow$ 'ium' [non-feminine ending] well I hope that this thread can continue to be about Great One-Liners

 

[sysprog]

"One of the Vanir" is an anagram of "Not heaven for I".

What the X? Did you just notice that on autopilot, or is that a known thing? or maybe you really are one of the Vanir? and if so, maybe you'd rather be one of the Aesir?

For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.

I'm starting to become curious about you.

 

[sysprog]

The surest indicator of the quality of a human is how they treat those with less power. $-$ @hutchphd

 

[Infrared]

For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.

I would guess that this is unusual. My expectation was that most of my students had seen cross products before in vector calculus or physics classes and I thought it worthwhile to give a linear algebra perspective. I taught them about determinants a couple of weeks prior, so they better had known about them...

The surest indicator of the quality of a human is how they treat those with less power. $-$ @hutchphd

Related (and hopefully not too well known to be worth posting): "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Dostoevsky

 

[sysprog]

I would guess that this is unusual. My expectation was that most of my students had seen cross products before in vector calculus or physics classes and I thought it worthwhile to a linear algebra perspective. I taught them about determinants a couple of weeks prior, so they better had known about them...

Related (and hopefully not too well known to be worth posting): "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Dostoevsky

Maybe my first calc teacher was a baseball, but maybe I didn't know that then $-$ my calc teacher was great $-$ I started operations research before linear algebra, so what do I know $\dots$

 

[sysprog]

Why use that as an excuse to bring in photons? $-$ @sophiecentaur

 

[sysprog]

You could approach your problem like any other project: write a functional specification document, classify the duties, estimate the necessary time to achieve each of the goals, prioritize, and make a project schedule. $-$ @fresh_42

 

[PhDeezNutz]

“One does not simply read a textbook, one works through a textbook” - @Vanadium 50

 

[Vanadium 50]

Is this better?

 

[fresh_42]

Is this better?

View attachment 275810

More like this:

 

[Vanadium 50]

"Problems worthy of attack, prove their worth by hitting back." - Piet Hein

 

[PeroK]

“One does not simply read a textbook, one works through a textbook” - @Vanadium 50

I just look at the pictures!

 

[sysprog]

I just look at the pictures!

You also at least read the captions, too, right?

 

[PeroK]

You also at least read the captions, too, right?

Yes, but sometimes I just skip to the end to see what happens.

 

[fresh_42]

I just look at the pictures!

That is you who @BillTre wants to write a book for?

What do people use for drawing molecules (in a digital manner)?

I would like to make space filling type models as well as letters representing the atoms connected by lines at different angles.
The second kind I could make with ad drawing program, but there's got to be a better way.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I just look at the pictures!

For some subjects that works better than for others.

 

[sysprog]

You're not going to make this easy, are you? $-$ @Vanadium 50

 

[sysprog]

It's like using a piano keyboard as 'proof' that only certain frequencies of sound exist. Then talk to a violinist. $-$ @sophiecentaur

 

[timmeister37]

I worked with a guy for over thirty years before he told me he was an accordion player. "I just don't talk about it," he said.

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

 

[phinds]

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.

 

[sysprog]

I worked with a guy for over thirty years before he told me he was an accordion player. "I just don't talk about it," he said.

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty,
playing "Rogers & Clarke" in the movie "Ishtar"
in the song "Dangerous Business":

Telling the truth can be dangerous business​

Honest and popular don't go hand in hand​

If you admit that you can play the accordion​

no-one will hire you in a rock & roll band​

In the mid-'80s I was a not-so-great accordionist $-$ only a little bit better on guitar $-$ my girlfriend could sing very well and was very good on piano $-$ we got a good laugh $\dots$

 

[BillTre]

The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.

Its also Weird Al's favorite instrument!

 

[PeroK]

The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.

If you play the accordion, then musically you are on the road to nowhere:

 

[sysprog]

@PeroK, isn't the road to nowhere better than the highway to hell?



and yeah Steve Vai is a lot better at guitar than I am $\dots$

 

[gmax137]

Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?

As I recall, @Vanadium 50 had posted something about gentlemen not playing trombones, I just followed up with accordions in a similar vein.

BTW, when I lived in New Orleans I saw a guy in the Quarter playing Jimi Hendix's "Voodoo Chile" on an accordion. That's something you don't forget.

 

[Vanadium 50]

BTW, when I lived in New Orleans I saw a guy in the Quarter playing Jimi Hendix's "Voodoo Chile" on an accordion. That's something you don't forget

As much as you might want to.

 

[sysprog]

I thought of doing the Alan Parsons Project "I, Robot" song as an accordion piece $-$ bass on the left hand, chords on the right $-$ I wasn't good enough $\dots$

 

[sysprog]

If you want to learn QFT, you should be looking at textbooks, not Wikipedia. $-$ @PeterDonis

 

[strangerep]

[Boromir: "...one works through a textbook..."]

... but not the way Boromir would do it, i.e., slashing it into a zillion pieces with his trusty broadsword...

 

[Rive]

... but not the way Boromir would do it, i.e. ...

... and then dying halfway

 

[sysprog]

Proof by personal incredulity does not count. $-$ @jbriggs444

 

[Borg]

Proof by personal incredulity does not count. $-$ @jbriggs444

I think that could apply to a lot these days.