Rationality Quotes: February 2011

Take off every 'quote'! You know what you doing. For great insight. Move 'quote'.

And if you don't:

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts from LW. (If you want to exclude OB too create your own quotes thread! OB is entertaining and insightful and all but it is no rationality blog!)
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Take off every 'quote'! You know what you doing. For great insight. Move 'quote'.

And if you don't:

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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts from LW. (If you want to exclude OB too create your own quotes thread! OB is entertaining and insightful and all but it is no rationality blog!)
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a fishing rod and he'll sell it for a fish.

Give a man a fish and he'll be back to pester you tomorrow. Give him a fishing rod and tomorrow you can tell him to piss off.

Unknown source.

But I'm not sure what any of the variants of this have to do with rationality.

7Kyre15y

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day Teach a man to fish, feed him for around 15 years until his major fishery collapses into unprofitability.

12Kaj_Sotala15y

(Terry Pratchett, I think.)

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