Rationality quotes: March 2010

Morendil

This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.

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 go ahead and 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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.

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 go ahead and 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.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.

The terrible truth is that postmodernism is what happens when somebody who believes what he reads, reads the Philosophy canon.

-- Quee Nelson, The Slightest Philosophy

The terrible truth is that postmodernism is what happens when somebody who believes what he reads, misreads the Philosophy canon, sleeps through Intro to Logic and never studies any hard science.

I really think my version is less wrong.

0ata16y

— Lynn Park

2RobinZ16y

Reading through, I see [edit: she - I apologize] later writes: [...] ...a sentiment reminiscent of Orwell's thoughts.