gwern comments on Rationality Quotes Thread December 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roland 10 December 2015 03:44:10PM 2 points [-]

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

-- The killer shortly before killing his victim in No Country for Old Men

Comment author: gwern 02 January 2016 07:04:13PM 7 points [-]

"A well-laid plan is always to my mind most profitable; even if it is thwarted later, the plan was no less good, and it is only chance that has baffled the design; but if fortune favors one who has planned poorly, then he has gotten only a prize of chance, and his plan was no less bad."

--Artabanus, uncle of Xerxes; book 7 of Herodotus's Histories (I could swear I'd seen this on a LW quote thread before, but searching turns up nothing.)

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