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"I have mixed feelings about AI."
"It doesn't matter."
-- I readily admit that Simson is right (July 2025).
"I don't trust anything for which there is no German word
('retreat' being one of those things)."
-- Antonia has doubts about attending a Sanskrit Retreat (July 2025).
But we cannot prove its truth with anything short of an infinity of tests,
so the truth of scientific hypothesis always remains a bit elusive. We
accept the truth of such hypotheses only after extensive testing fails to
falsify them. This leads us to see science as the pursuit of disbelief.
The scientist is always striving to prove his or her theories false, and
accepts them as true only after extensive tries to falsify tyem fail.
This is in contrast to religion, wherin practitioners accept a premise
to be true until overwhelming evidence is provided to the countrary."
-- George A. Hazelrigg, Research 101 For Engineers, date unknown.
I saw this while reading up on NSF grants (October 2025).
Obviously it's a terrible time to break a 2FA method. On the other hand,
it's a natural time to break a 2FA method.
-- Sadly, Judson is parodoxically correct (October 2025).
"We'll play at Ray's house. <pause> And then at Emily's house."
-- Alan trying to course-correct after remembering a second or two
too late that both pay for and own the house (November 2025).
"Caring less is a good strategy for solving lots of problems."
-- Emily did clarify she meant AFTER efforts to actually
fix a problem didn't work (November 2025).
Thank goodness I don't live next to the ocean.
Though the first time after I got home when I played that "sounds
of nature" ocean waves CD to fall asleep, it was distinctly unhelpful.
"Wave - step - SNAP - drown drown drown"
-- Tom, who lives in Boston, has a flashback to a recent
experience in another ocean (December 2025).
"I am terrified of bees because they're just flying needles."
-- Carina's trypanophobia justifies her apiophobia (December 2025).
"It tasted like food tasted when I had COVID."
-- Ryan's not impressed by dragon fruit's "flavor" (January 2026).
"Seating is for the weak."
-- At a games night, El doesn't need no stinking chair (January 2026).
"I consider my knees bad...[though] on the scale of people in this room..."
-- El (Claudia) realized, given everyone in the room played ultimate,
including one who had knee surgery 3 days earlier and the host
had ACL surgery 3.5 months ago, that she needed to qualify her
assessment (January 2026).
"There're two pieces of Popeye's Chicken, if anyone wants Popeye's Chicken."
"Where's it from?"
"Popeye's."
-- Alan wasn't being sarcastic, and Ray just answered the question,
unintentially channeling Abbot and Costello (January 2026).
The list of previous selected "quotes of now" for 2026.