Rationality Quotes November 2014

elharo

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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.
Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The 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Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson.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.
Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.

Her works listed at de.wikipedia.org are on other subjects.

If you read that article you will find that Spektrum (the German version of the Scientific American) wrote her a well meaning obituary.

If you read that article you will find that Spektrum (the German version of the Scientific American) wrote her a well meaning obituary.

I wonder why. Via Google Translate, the obituary says only:

Vera F. Birkenbihl, G & G-author of the first hour, passed away on Saturday, December 3, 2011, a pulmonary embolism. Born on April 26, 1946 psychologist and journalist earned a reputation as a manager trainer and author of more than 30 non-fiction books in which they presented their learning styles among others. Since the first edition of 2002, she was an i

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