Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:

Another monthly installment of the rationality quotes thread. The usual rules apply:

I finished creating the 2012 edition of the Best of Rationality Quotes collection. (Here is last year's.)

Best of Rationality Quotes 2012 (500kB page, 434 quotes)
and Best of Rationality Quotes 2009-2012 (1200kB page, 1140 quotes)

The page was built by a short script (source code here) from all the LW Rationality Quotes threads so far. (We had such a thread each month since April 2009.) The script collects all comments with karma score 10 or more, and sorts them by score. Replies are not collected, only top-level comments.

As is now usual, I provide various statistics and top-lists based on the data. (Source code for these is also at the above link, see the README.) I added these as comments to the post:

• Top quote contributors by total karma score collected
• Top quote contributors by karma score collected in 2012
• Top quote contributors by statistical significance level (See this comment for a description of this metric.)
• Top original authors by number of quotes
• Top original authors by total karma score collected

Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

• Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down 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• Do not quote yourself
• Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
• No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

• Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down 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• Do not quote yourself
• Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
• No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

• Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down 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• Do not quote yourself
• Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
• No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

• Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down 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 comments/posts on LW/OB
• No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.