Konkvistador comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 September 2011 10:21:34PM * 11 points [-]

Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.

-Hippocrates

Comment author: [deleted] 13 September 2011 10:27:34PM * 15 points [-]

[The] art is long,
life is short,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgment difficult.

Considering the beast that some hope to kill by sharpening people's mind-sticks on LW, this sounds applicable wouldn't you agree?

Comment author: Nisan 17 September 2011 06:49:37AM 2 points [-]

Upvote for "mind-sticks".

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 23 September 2011 08:39:26PM 5 points [-]

Here's the ancient greek version, to appease NihilCredo:

Ὁ μὲν βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή

Comment author: lessdazed 24 September 2011 09:27:33PM 2 points [-]

No puns, upvoted.

Comment author: NihilCredo 17 September 2011 03:25:30AM 6 points [-]

Why is a quote by a Greek, about whom our main sources are also Greek, being posted in Latin?

Comment author: [deleted] 17 September 2011 11:32:19AM * 6 points [-]

The saying "Ars longa, vita brevis" is a well known saying in my lanugage in its latin form. Seems to be the most common renderng in English as well.

Comment author: lessdazed 17 September 2011 05:01:41AM 3 points [-]

Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.

Comment author: MBlume 17 September 2011 05:04:25AM * 4 points [-]

(At the risk of ruining the joke: "Anything said in Latin sounds profound")