"Lernen, lernen und nochmals lernen." -- plastered everywhere in Soviet schools.
This rule is a fence against the situation where Lenin quotes appear everywhere. You think we should move the fence, lots of folks seem to disagree.
LW is not in a lot of danger of missing or forgetting some important thing Robin/EY/Scott/etc. said. LW is in danger of hero worship, and other related cultishness badness.
I think that LW has enough contrarianism and "Why our kind can't cooperate" describes a real issue.
LW is not in a lot of danger of missing or forgetting some important thing Robin/EY/Scott/etc. said.
Spaced repetition theory suggests that it's quite useful to repeat important things that people say.
I also consider it to be quite useful to have a debate about what bits of what Robin/EY/Scott say are of particular importance and what bits aren't. Quotes help the quest of focusing on specific ideas instead of getting lost in complexity.
Robin/EY/Scott/etc.
The rule in this thread allows quotes from Scott.
Quotes are a unique enough medium of expression that I'm interested in viewing quotes that people have found collectable, emotionally impactful, useful, memorable, or otherwise noteworthy - perhaps others are similarly interested. To clarify, these need not be even remotely related to rationality. I'm hijacking the mandates traditionally used for the Rationality Quotes thread, with a few modifications:
Please post any meta discussion in the top-level comment named "Meta".