Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:
Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
This seems to contradict one of the main Sequences here, namely A Human's Guide To Words. Specifically Taboo Your Words (which even uses the tree in the forest example). This is probably why it was downvoted.
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: