[user_]

The first one is based on a Bruce Lee quote :)

> Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. Now water can flow, or it can crash! Be water, my friend.

[phaedrix]

...And Bruce Lee is paraphrasing from the Tao Te Ching; chapter 8 on water.

https://www.taoistic.com/taoteching-laotzu/taoteching-08.htm

There's also a really good and short Ted Talk on it: https://www.ted.com/talks/raymond_tang_be_humble_and_other_l...

[_the_inflator]

I fixed it a litte: "You put water into a cpp; it becomes the cpp." ;)

[nyanpasu64]

Sadly C and C++ have aliasing rules, so casting a pointer to another type is often UB instead of having the underlying memory take the form of the new type.

[HPsquared]

Hence it can flow, or it can crash!

[yakubin]

Or it can just give someone root.

[rgoulter]

Ahhh, I should have recognised it; it's used in this Melodysheep remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZxGtvpp49M

[swyx]

really gotta wonder if he really said it or its misattributed to him.

[vincnetas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ

At least he said that. Not sure if he was first to say that though.

[prox]

There are some zen quotes and teachings that compare our minds to the contents of a cup vs the vessel (body). In Daoism you have the yin/yang aspects. Afaik The quote seems to be his.

[roey2009]

That quote is indeed his. I listened to Shannon Lee's (his daughter) podcast, and she told the story of when he understood it.

Apparently when his martial arts teacher told him he was too forceful, to be more like water, and then banned him from practicing until he understood. Short story, he went on a boat ride, got angry, started punching the river, then he got that aha moment.

Bruce Lee was actually a really wise dude. I also highly recommend the podcast.

https://brucelee.com/podcast/

[ndr]

https://youtu.be/cJMwBwFj5nQ