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Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 July 2012 06:49:51PM 6 points [-]

We used to say of two friends of mine that "They don't so much toss ideas back and forth as hurl sharp jagged ideas directly at one another's heads."

Comment author: gwern 21 July 2012 02:28:12AM 5 points [-]

"Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course."

--Steven Erikson, House of Chains (2002)