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Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB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.

"The battle of Thermopylae" repeated for every answer.

Unless it really was the battle of Thermopylae. Not having studied, you wont know.

"The Battle of Thermopylae" is intended as the alternate for questions which might have "Tau is exactly six" as the answer.

For example: "What would be one consequence of a new state law which defines the ratio of a circle's circumference to diameter as exactly three?"

I bet that you can't write a question for which "Tau is exactly six." and "The battle of Thermopylae" are both answers which gain any credit...

-1shokwave14y

"The duel between the current King of France and the former Emperor of Britain". There, the answer won't ever be that phrase.