Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • Say
  • Very

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Father
  • Career
  • Service

• But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • High
  • Feeling

• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Remember
  • Jesus

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Career
  • Know

• I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • See
  • Intent

• Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sin

• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Military

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Age
  • Singing

• I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Social
  • Very

• I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • More
  • Knowing
  • Comfortable

• The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • History

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Evil
  • Talking
  • Courses

• When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Cool

• In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Facts
  • Equality
  • Nonsense

• Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky