Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 January 2010 11:54:26PM 7 points [-]

When someone tells you that anything is possible, tell them to dribble a football.

-- Anon

Comment author: ciphergoth 08 January 2010 01:15:48AM 4 points [-]

In the UK to dribble a football means to keep it close to your feet as you move along the pitch - is that the meaning you refer to here? If so I can't make sense of the quote, because it's perfectly possible.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 January 2010 03:35:43AM *  7 points [-]

Heh. Make that, "tell them to basketball-dribble an American football."

People in the rest of the world dribble footballs all the time.

Funny, when I was a kid I sometimes used to try to basketball-dribble a US football for fun. Never got it down very well.

Comment author: AngryParsley 08 January 2010 01:26:42AM *  3 points [-]

American football, basketball dribble.

Edit: Aww, I lose alphabetically and chronologically.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 08 January 2010 01:31:59AM 0 points [-]

You found better references, though. :)

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 08 January 2010 01:20:51AM *  2 points [-]

He almost certainly meant an American football, and dribbling as in basketball, which is done by bouncing it off the ground repeatedly.