[MDCore]

What you're describing is making work useful, not meaningful. More people nowadays are rejecting work that has no meaning, connection to identity and makes no use of their intellect, even if that work is a means of some income.

[nradov]

Really? Which people are those? How did they get the privilege to pick and choose based on "meaning"? These claims seem totally disconnected from the way that most people actually live: they take the jobs they can get and make the best of it because they have bills to pay.

[BenFranklin100]

What I am describing is something called wisdom.

[messe]

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

[esafak]

    Hacker: That's not the point. Look at Latin. Hardly anybody knows that now.
    Humphrey: Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
    Hacker: What?
    Humphrey: Times change and we change with the times.
    Hacker: Precisely.
    Humphrey: Si tacuisses, philosophus manisses.
    Hacker: What does that mean?
    Humphrey: If you'd kept your mouth shut, we might have thought you were clever.
    Hacker: I beg your pardon?
    Humphrey: Not you, Prime Minister. That's the translation.

https://youtu.be/beuKfLn8a6c?t=96

[Imustaskforhelp]

What a great way to say to someone that their words could've had some value if they hadn't been too crude/maybe rude and said things in a different manner lol.

I don't agree with the author's standpoint but I can kinda understand it but their passive aggression on the parent comment was just not needed and this clever way of saying it was kinda cool. I learnt something new to say but I am not sure how many ways it would be viable to say this

Any other quotes like this that you might want to share?

[BenFranklin100]

No need to ask him; ask ChatGPT. That’s what he did: “Please give me a latin phrase that says someone would seem more intelligent if they had remained silent.”

ChatGPT has lifted Latin putdowns from the province of Harvard classics major to computer programmers.

[messe]

As the other commenter noted, I stole it from Yes Minister, not ChatGPT.

> ChatGPT has lifted Latin putdowns from the province of Harvard classics major to computer programmers.

I take issue with your implication that software developers can't have other interests. What a fucking narrow minded view of the world your must have.