Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

  • jmsy@lemmy.world
    425·
    1 year ago

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

    That is not the definition of insanity

    • blady_blah@lemmy.world
      161·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, isn’t it like practicing? You’re not very good at something so you practice over and over and over and hopefully when you’re done you do it better… You know different than when you started.

    • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
      4·
      1 year ago

      this quote works very well on computers who run instructions pretty consistent.

      any larger/ life-level scope and it falls apart from niche cases.

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        Any software engineer you care to ask will tell you about situations in which doing the same thing has led to vastly different results.