Quote of the Day: 24 September 2026 #QotD

“Don't go into debt trying to buy a symbol of a great marriage. Build one instead.” -Dave Ramsey
[Or any symbol, really. If you want something great, make that thing great. Don't try to make something else represent it, and don't take on unnecessary risk through debt to get it.]

Quote of the Day: 23 September 2026 #QotD

“Top performers understand their field at a higher level than average performers do, and thus have a superior structure for remembering information about it.” -Geoff Colvin
[This phenomenon does a bit to help explain the Dunning-Kruger effect. Those who are intimately familiar with a topic not only know how much they still don't know, they have forgotten what the average person doesn't know.]

Quote of the Day: 22 September 2026 #QotD

“[N]ext time you’re tempted not to tell me something ‘for my own good,’ will you take a chance that I’m not wedded to my own ignorance?” -Clifford “Kip” Russell, Have Space Suit – Will Travel
[When we decide for another what they should or should not know we are taking on a role that is reserved for parents or the individual himself.]

Quote of the Day: 21 September 2026 #QotD

“I tell you, mister, he can’t write for shucks and his spelling’s something terrible. And it’s a downright pity. For he’s got a book to write.” -Larry Higgins, They Walked Like Men
[Almost everyone has a story to tell. Almost everyone is terrible at it as well, though.]

Quote of the Day: 20 September 2026 #QotD

“If we have a sincere desire, being meek and lowly in heart, we can come to know the true God the Father and gain eternal life through His Son, Jesus Christ, for the power is in us—in choosing to believe and deciding to act accordingly.” -Wan-Liang Wu

Quote of the Day: 19 September 2026 #QotD

“In the Gospels Jesus has to explain to the apostles that he is speaking in a metaphor, not literally, because they are dumb as stumps, and, boy, people have not gotten smarter in the intervening two millenia.” -Tucker Saglio
[Sometimes it is simply that they would prefer literal statements rather than metaphor because it makes it easier to deny what he obviously meant.]

Quote of the Day: 18 September 2026 #QotD

“Young bahss, you ’ave always been my friend.” -Timothy, The Cay
[The way we see others is not always how they see us. And sometimes they have a better idea of who we are than we do.]