From ee0948dd002ba4d85da678bf2fe76fa91e9c452b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zane Meyers Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:50:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2025-10-26 15:50:03 --- favorite-quotes.md | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/favorite-quotes.md b/favorite-quotes.md index afddaec..baf8701 100644 --- a/favorite-quotes.md +++ b/favorite-quotes.md @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ id: aliases: [] tags: - - destiny/fleeting - authorship/original + - destiny/fleeting title: Favorite Quotes --- # Favorite Quotes @@ -56,9 +56,15 @@ it's usually to justify second definition [yak shaving](https://en.wiktionary.or > [!quote] Ecclesiastes 10:10 King James Version > If the iron be blunt, -> and he do not whet the edge, +> and he do not whet the edge, > then must he put to more strength: > but wisdom _is_ profitable to direct. I like the story because it's well known and easily interpreted as an [optimization problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_problem). + +## About Originality + +> [!quote] Brian Eno, _A Year With Swollen Appendices_, p. 67 +> A way of doing something original is by trying something so painstaking +> that nobody else has ever bothered with it.