you know, I've always thought that "If I know I have something... somewhere, but I don't know where that thing is is, I have effectively lost it"

I agree with the sentiment, and the specific wording of your comment made me want to link to the classic bash.org quote[0] which has consistently been in the top 5 for a long time, but I just learned that we lost bash.org... :(

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230610235249/http://bash.org/?...