CronoDAS comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 24 September 2011 10:56:02PM 17 points [-]

If we don't change our direction, we're likely to end up where we're headed.

-- Chinese proverb

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 25 September 2011 12:27:29AM 14 points [-]

Ian Stewart invented the game of tautoverbs. Take a proverb and manipulate it so that it's tautological. i.e. "Look after the pennies and the pennies will be looked after" or "No news is no news". There's a kind of Zen joy in forming them.

This proverb however, is already there.