Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
