What popular quote are you tired of hearing?

"We only use ten percent of our brains."

People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.

"Everything happens for a reason"

The cancer disagrees.

"I could care less".

Oh really? How much less?

“They’re just one bad apple” in reference to (more often than not) shitty cops, but also for most malcontents in a position of public trust. This a misappropriation of the aphorism “one bad apple spoils the bunch” which is literally saying that if there’s one bad actor in a group, the entire group is comprised.

"Customer is always right" isn't a trump card for customers to win disputes with the staff. When it comes to matters of preference, yes, the customer is always right. Ketchup on ice cream? Great. Down jacket and shorts? Sure thing! If it makes you happy and you're paying for it then you're always right.

In most other matters though, customers are usually wrong. The idea that random people off the street know more about the products and the way a business should be run than the actual people selling said products and running said business is absolutely ridiculous.

"if you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best".

You're basically excusing bad behavior. And never taking accountability. People are wrong. Mostly when they are so blindly following some perception of greatness rather than caring for those around you.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

That is not the definition of insanity

"Survival of the fittest" when used to indicate the stongest should survive. Instead of the one best suited for (fitting) the situation.

do or do not, there is no try

Fuck you. That was meant for a Jedi master not your fucking IT systems admin

Whenever "woke" is brought up.

Please give me your definition of woke, because so far it's been different for everyone I've talked to.

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Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Especially when used by people claiming to have done just that.

"Agree to disagree." No, dipshit, you're just wrong.

I do not agree to disagree, because we're not arguing about opinions. Your belief is simply, objectively incorrect. Or mine is, which is something that I would be willing to accept. If I were wrong, you'd be able to convince me that I'm wrong. We can keep going until one of us accepts that we didn't have an accurate understanding of reality.

It's always the dipshits that fall back on "Well, we will have to agree to disagree," usually right after they've been presented with enough evidence to change the mind of a rational person. Fuck that, I do not agree to disagree.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. And as far as I can tell Einstein never said it but it's always attributed to Einstein

"actually we're a republic" when someone defends democracy

"They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!" Apparently, the quote originates from like a late 1800s textbook or something, and it was a logic problem: "Why cannot a man pull himself up by his own bootstraps?" It's not possible, 'cause physics.

"not all heroes wear capes"

"Fuck around and find out"

Occam's razor, because it seem it is often used wrong by using it for just shutting down possible explanations. Typically noone mentions, that this is about guessing probabilities without prior knowledge and not a way to completely ignore an explanation.

"make it was simple as possible"

Super annoying, because the people who use this always forget the second half, which makes the saying useful.

"Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler" it is effectively a re-stating of Occam's razor.

"If you know, you know"

No one wants to work anymore.

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"think of how stupid the average person is, and then think half of them are dumber than that"

So heavily overused.

"Galileo too was ostracized for his beliefs, but he was right"

Yeah but he did science, not that new age bullshit you think are an expert in.

I guess you don't see it too much these days (outside of maybe yearbooks or collections of inspirational quotes), but Frost's "I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference."

If you read the rest of the poem the narrator explicitly states in several different ways that the roads are pretty much the same. So the narrator is saying that by later on saying the roads are different he'll be retroactively be justifying his choice or just not telling the truth about it.

"I took the road less traveled." Which in the original poem means pretty much the opposite of what people are trying to say.

I live in the US and follow rugby.

"Rugby is a hooligan's sport played by gentlemen, soccer is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans."

So cringe. Different sports are different. I can like both, I can even play both, and neither suffers a loss.

Not a quote, just a single word that's overused to death, and you can probably already guess the word...

"Woke"

Just shut the fuck up! Please please please just shut up!

That trickle-down economics quote. There's studies about it [not working] published but it's just studies.

The original quote is "If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows" from Galbraith.

I imagine people are not yet ready to learn this "promise" ain't holding water.

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" -stupid monkeys

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"

You do realise that people who are awake during the night are of equal importance, who's gonna run those power plants and radio stations and petrol service stations and police forces and whatever else? If they shut off during the night, there'd be chaos. At least a chaos that most folks won't see because they're asleep or something.

I said what I said...

"Curate your _____", bonus points if used alongside a singular noun. I saw an ad the other day that said "curate your countertops", no thanks, I'd rather stick to one style of countertop

At the end of the day...

"Settled science." Used by people who don't understand that science at its heart is constantly questioning everything.

"You must be funny at parties"

Specially if you're not around, bitch

"Blood is thicker than water" followed by the equally erroneous "covenant" explanation.

We need to be like Amazon and hyper focus on the customer

640k ought to be enough for anyone.

Bill Gates didn't even say it. And even if one only takes the spirit out of that quote whereupon software and hardware should be planned with foresight, it's so overused.

"Blood is thicker than water" a misquote of "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" which has the exact opposite meaning.

“Literally 1984”… unless I’m asking you what year the Macintosh 128k came out I don’t wanna hear it.

"This hurts me more than it hurts you"

No, I'm pretty sure being spanked hurts more than doing the spanking.

"Oh how the turn tables" or whatever that bastardized quote from the Office. I hate it passionately, but it seems to have infected normal discourse and is supplanting the original phrase. I hate it so much. I hate that goddamn show. /rant

“ One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".

No it doesn't. At most the world no longer has depth perception.

This “Do you listen to Weezer?” stuff is getting pretty old

"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

An individual, uneducated observer might not be able to tell them apart, but that doesn't mean there isn't a distinction.

One of the avengers movies dropped that line, and I feel like it's spread like wild fire since then, and it's just objectively not correct.

“This is the way”

Anything described as "just common sense." No, it's knowledge/awareness that you picked up from your particular environment. Not everyone has had the same exposure as you.

"The cloud is just someone else's computers."

If that's what you really think the cloud is, still, then you are a dinosaur who is not evolving with the times.

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