{"id":9626,"date":"2026-03-30T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:35:54","slug":"davids-most-useful-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/davids-most-useful-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"David’s Most Useful Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weather<\/strong>
\n“If you don’t like Monterey Peninsula weather, move five feet.<\/strong><\/em>” Early 1980s<\/p>\n

Personal<\/strong>
\n\u201cThere\u2019s no one else on Earth that I would rather be.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d-1979<\/p>\n

\u201cFlattery is a pretty poison. Nice to get as a gift, just don\u2019t swallow it.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d 2015, Feb<\/p>\n

“George is my favorite Brother” <\/strong>– (yes, he’s my only brother) “I wouldn’t trade him for anybody.” <\/strong>(Though if Olivia Munn was asking, that could get awkward.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEccentric means perfectly round<\/span>, just off-center. Considering the alarmingly mental & emotional center of America, it\u2019s a laudable, even imperative goal, and not even mildly difficult to have better ideas.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d 1985<\/p>\n

Love vs Lust<\/strong>
\n“There’s no such thing as a German Kiss<\/strong><\/em>.” July 2016<\/p>\n

“We do not fall in love, we fall in lust. We can only grow into love.<\/strong><\/em>” – 1976,\u00a0 Award winning poem displayed 6 foot tall with Lasers in London’s Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n

“Love is proportional to the amount of time we spend with someone.<\/strong><\/em>” – 1976<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you take your pants off \u2013 think of me.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d 2012 (Flirting with a girlfriend)<\/p>\n

Computers and Documentation<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There’s No Such thing as Computer Illiteracy, there is only Badly Written Software.<\/strong><\/em>” – 1986 Software Manual for my PC Magazine Award-winning “Instant-Office” Contact Management program (App)<\/p>\n

Environmental Protection<\/strong>
\n“Never met a forest I didn’t like<\/strong><\/em>.” – 1995 (before I visited Australia with no native Conifers)<\/p>\n

“Sanctuary Much<\/strong><\/em>” – ~1986 (to Leon Panetta at his MPC Town Hall – audience laughed & some quoted it back to me years later)<\/p>\n

“May the Forest be with you.<\/strong><\/em>” ~1989 Possibly the first, I proposed it a Bumper Sticker to Save Americas’ Forests<\/p>\n

“When your heart knows some natural phenomena must be protected, there is at least one law which already protects it.<\/strong><\/em>” ~1992 (1hope.org website)<\/p>\n

“Clint Eastwood\u2019s Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong><\/em>” – 2000<\/p>\n

“Slow-Motion Ecological Train Wreck<\/strong><\/em>” re: Pebble Beach Company proposed Forest Destruction<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican environmentalists are the world\u2019s worst negotiators.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d – 1995<\/p>\n

“You can’t force feed an ecosystem.<\/strong><\/em>” 2002 Comments on Fort Ord-RIFS”<\/p>\n

“Jeffer’s Forest”<\/strong><\/em> – Naming an extraordinarily ecologically and economically valuable native biologically & genetically diverse forest ecosystem,<\/strong> 1994?<\/p>\n

\u201cReplant and Thin No More.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d ~1998<\/p>\n

“Slow-Motion Explosion<\/em>“<\/strong> – 1994 to PG Council (Dena & Lena Ibrahim loved it)<\/p>\n

Fun<\/strong>
\n\u201cA storm is a terrible thing to waste.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d – ~1980 windsurfing<\/p>\n

“So much fun it oughta be illegal.<\/strong><\/em>” 1979 windsurfing<\/p>\n

Amusing, Puns<\/strong>
\n“Champagne sounds like “Sham-Pain<\/strong><\/em>” – a hypochondriac’s beverage. 1990s<\/p>\n

Politics<\/strong>
\n“I’ve earned my enemies honestly.<\/strong><\/em>” – 2004<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocracy is war without guns<\/strong><\/em>\u201d (later added) \u201c… where guns aren\u2019t fired.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d – 1992<\/p>\n

“Doing Nothing is Always Superior to doing something Wrong.<\/em><\/span><\/strong>“<\/em> -2011 Blog article<\/p>\n

\u201cAuthority will always employ the best solution, but only after exhausting every other self-serving possibility.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d \u2013 July 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you \u2018win\u2019 by abandoning your most cherished values \u2013 why do you call it winning?<\/strong><\/em>\u201d 2007 (Jon Stewart said this possibly better, a couple years later in 2009 “If you abandon your values under pressure – they aren’t values – they’re hobbies”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Civil Bribery<\/strong><\/em>” – 2008<\/p>\n

Animal Bodies<\/strong>
\n\u201cA human being is a low-grade flame burning at about 98 degrees Fahrenheit. <\/strong>(for about 800,000 hours)\u201d \u2013 1975 ?<\/p>\n

Confidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Persistence is the Most Powerful Tool known to Womankind.<\/strong><\/em>” 1980s, quoted back to me many times, sometimes decades later.<\/p>\n

\u201cFalse Humility is the greatest conceit.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d 1977 (1970?)<\/p>\n

Organizing, Personal<\/strong>
\n\u201cNever lay paper flat. Always stand it on end – or you will never see it again.<\/strong>\u201d – 1984<\/p>\n

\u201cYou always have more than you think.<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 2013-2014 Canadian Sojourn<\/p>\n

Kind, Flirty & Diplomacy<\/strong>
\n“You look good in a smile.<\/strong><\/em>”<\/p>\n

Fixing Anything<\/strong>
\n“Take it apart, clean it and put it back together.<\/strong><\/em>” – ~1968, learned this through maintaining and creating winning Racing Slot-Cars<\/p>\n

Art & Inspiration<\/strong>
\n“Good art is what jumps off the work and stays in your mind. Great art does that and more; it ignites you to create<\/strong><\/em>” -2009<\/p>\n

“Art is simply the use of skill to make something for aesthetic effect<\/strong><\/em>.” 2012, InspiringLandscapes.com<\/strong><\/em> website<\/p>\n

Physics<\/strong><\/span>
\n“Reality is what remains after you stop looking at it through math-colored glasses<\/strong><\/em>.” 2008 Cosmology paper “Ground Rules for Cosmological Physics”<\/p>\n

“Mathematics does not<\/strong><\/em> and cannot create physical reality<\/strong><\/em>“- 2008 Cosmology paper “Ground Rules for Cosmological Physics”<\/p>\n

“Mathematics proofs, like the Pythagorean Theorem, have finality.<\/em> Physical Science \u201cProofs\u201d are never Final. They are always subject to new evidence or reasoning<\/strong>.” – Cosmology Glossary 2008<\/p>\n

\u201cAccuracy does not equal meaning.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d \u2013 2008 Cosmology paper “Ground Rules for Cosmological Physics”<\/p>\n

\u201cAn <\/strong><\/em>(physics)<\/span> explanation is inadequate when there are more equations than graphs.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d \u2013 2008 Cosmology paper<\/p>\n

\u201cMystification and Mathematics are a Theorist\u2019s defense against being found out.<\/strong>\u201d July 2014<\/p>\n

“Cosmologists are often Wrong, but Never in Doubt” <\/strong>– “Crisis in Cosmology” Talk, Port Angeles, WA 2008
\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“We need to foster a Cosmology culture that is Comfortable with Un-Certainty.” –<\/strong>Keynote Lecture for Bhaktivedanta Institute Golden Jubilee, 2026
\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Space-Time is actually Gravity-Time because it involves and requires a force, but space exhibits no known forces<\/strong><\/em>” Feb 2014, Cosmology Glossary<\/p>\n

Cosmology<\/strong>
\n“If [Big Bang] ‘space’ is either matter or force, it has not been observed. If [Big Bang] ‘space’ is neither matter or force it cannot be observed.<\/strong>” – 2008 Ibid<\/p>\n

“BackGround” Microwave Radiation<\/strong><\/span>
\n“Cosmic Microwave Background is a mirage, an illusion, a ghost.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d \u2013 July 6, 2014″<\/p>\n

All the following “Microwave Background” quotes <\/strong>are from my Keynote Lecture for Bhaktivedanta Institute Golden Jubilee, March 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Its ALL Foreground<\/strong><\/em>” (referring to Cosmic Microwave Radiation, how “Background” microwaves are an Illusion<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

“Microwave Background IS an Illusion”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Its ALL ForeGround Microwaves!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Our best whole sky microwave data is 58,000 times Worse Resolution than Hubble images”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“The search for ‘Dark Matter’ is over. Its been found thanks to the Dokkum and Conroy team.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Microwave Foreground is physically verifiable. We can take \u201cPhotographs\u201d of Foreground Microwave Radiation. But Microwave \u201cBackground\u201d is a Calculation<\/span>, Not a picture. We cannot take photographs of CMBR. We only arrive at it by subtraction.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Every Planck Pixel includes Microwaves of ~50,000 Galaxies.<\/strong><\/em>”<\/p>\n

“EVERY Cosmic Microwave ‘background’ Pixel \/ Data point includes Microwave Radiation from tens of thousands to millions of Foreground galaxies ! That directly contradicts Microwave ‘Background’s’ definition of not coming from known matter sources !”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Gravity Makes Disks & Spheres — like Stars and most Galaxies.<\/em><\/strong>
\nBut Only ElectroMagnetism & Plasma make Filaments and Sheets – like our Universe’s largest structures.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Above a galaxy scale, only ElectroMagnetism & Plasma make Filament, Sheet and Void shapes.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Trusting Big Bang is like using a Paris street map to guide\u00a0 you climbing Mt Everest”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Big Bang is a Hilarious Spoof. Post-posterous – Way beyond the aftermath of anything pre-posterous.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Dark Matter has been found! Its Red Dwarves — . . . Oops, sorry \ud83d\ude42 I meant Red Dwarf Stars.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Regarding Universe demise “There is no End<\/strong><\/span><\/em>”<\/p>\n

“For Forty Thousand Fortnights, Ptolemy ruled the skies, with his Earth centered-universe, until its overdue demise.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Gravitational Expansion, a self-conflicting view, another Earth-centered blunder, misled by a sexy clue.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Expertise<\/strong>
\n\u201cIf people knew how hard I worked to make this look easy, they wouldn\u2019t be so impressed.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d — Echoing Dolly Parton’s wonderful “You wouldn’t believe how much it costs to look this cheap<\/em>”<\/p>\n

\u201cShow the path and you impart hope.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d 2014<\/p>\n

#\u00a0 #\u00a0 #<\/p>\n

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