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* "Vision without unit tests is hallucination."
* "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid, but it will try both simultaneously."
* "Any meeting that couldve been an email couldve been a database constraint."
* "AI alignment is the polite term for convincing an overgrown autocomplete to want what you want instead of what you typed."
* "AI alignment is the polite term for convincing an overgrown autocomplete to want what you want instead of what you typed."
* "In theory theres no difference between theory and practice. In practice the difference is mostly legal liability."
* "If an alien is smart enough to cross interstellar space, its smart enough to mute Earth on arrival."
* "Never bring a heuristic to a proof fight."
* "The universe let the speed of light be finite so that debugging couldnt be done remotely."
* "Somewhere theres a parallel timeline where the Luddites won, and theyre complaining about loom influencers."
* "A committee is just an asynchronous neural network whose loss function has been misplaced."
* "The cloud is just someone else's uptime guarantee wearing too much makeup."
* "Modern life is basically spreadsheets all the way down and vibes all the way up."
* "Any sufficiently advanced language model is indistinguishable from a mediocre intern with an infinite caffeine budget."
* "Always cache in haste; repent at cache invalidation."
* "The best thing about quantum computers is that when they break you can blame it on a universe you dont live in."
* "Civilization is what happens while zoning boards are making other plans."
* "If your paper needs more citations, try adding evidence."
* "Statistics is the art of torturing data until it confesses to a misdemeanor."
* "Move fast and break things was fun until someone broke continuity of government."
* "Every great simulation begins as fan-fiction of reality."
* "The safest prediction is that tomorrow will be like today, except where it matters."
* "People dont want flying cars; they want traffic to happen to other people at higher altitudes."
* "Tell me your KPI and Ill tell you who you fired."
* "Ethical consumption under capitalism is mostly wishful recycling."
* "If your startup pitch fits on one slide, investors assume the second slide is ???."
* "Remember: the tooltip was invented so that the documentation could finally give up."
* "Humans evolved storytelling so their priors could reproduce."
* "Regulation is societys way of writing unit tests after prod is on fire."
* "The blockchain is a slow, expensive receipt printer nobody can turn off."
* "Every time you say it scales linearly a throughput fairy loses a wing."
* "Real artists ship; fake artists wait for the supply chain."
* "Ask not for whom the pager tolls; it tolls because someone merged on Friday."
* "The tragedy of the commons now comes with referral codes."
* "If your model is bigger than your ego, youre either enlightened or underfunded."
* "Nobody wants to read your privacy policy; they want to feel it isnt cursed."
* "We taught machines to play Go so theyd leave chess players alone."
* "Climate change is just Earth rage-quitting the current simulation."
* "Dark patterns are UIs way of admitting marketing won."
* "Goodharts Law was more of a guideline until the A/B test."
* "In a long enough timeline, every dashboard becomes a wall of red."
* "Deep down, every spreadsheet wishes it were a database with no users."
* "Security through obscurity works until someone is curious and unemployed."
* "History doesnt repeat, but it does retweet."
* "The killer feature of paper is nobody ever asks you to rotate it to landscape mode."