Inspired by maia's post:
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
---Cave Johnson, Portal 2
Huh, I scrolled past this and read Nisan's post first, by the time I got any further this was already running through my head.
Not so sure that this is a good rationalist quote though.
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: