Rationality Quotes September 2012

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Subway ad: "146 people were hit by trains in 2011. 47 were killed."

Guy on Subway: "That tells me getting hit by a train ain't that dangerous."

I can't help but think:

Subway ad: "146 people were hit by trains in 2011. 47 were killed."

Guy at Subway: "What does that have to do with sandwiches?"

27Grognor14y

This reminds me of how I felt when I learned that a third of the passengers of the Hindenburg survived. Went something like this, if I recall: [...]

16A1987dM14y

Wait, 32% probability of dying “ain't that dangerous”? Are you f***ing kidding me?