A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then fine, post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
What's even worse is trying to get that message to happen.
I confess, in my early internet days, I thought I figured out how to trisect an angle, and sent a sketch of it to a random math prof in Canada, asking for a prompt reply.
And you know what? I didn't get one! Probably the most polite reply one could reasonably expect.
9RobinZ
I don't know if I like this one. One ought to try some things, if for no other reason to learn which sources of information are reliable.
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).