noitanigami comments on Rationality Quotes Thread March 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 02 March 2015 03:20:41AM *  18 points [-]

You cannot change and yet remain the same, though this is what most people want.

--Patrick J. MacDonald

Comment author: noitanigami 16 March 2015 06:01:20PM *  1 point [-]

Changing while remaining the same is what Algebra is all about. Identify the quality you wish to hold invariant, then find the transformations that do so. Changing things while leaving them the same in important ways is how problems are solved.