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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Different
  • College

• The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Children
  • Progress

• The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Work

• He expected to have only one clear shot at the assorted joys of living, and he had no intention of risking it to meet someone else’s misconceived expectations.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Law
  • Respect

• It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.

  

  Aristotle
  • Body
  • Elements
  • Infinite

• What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Love
  • Hell
  • Infinite

• This huge life-changing moment of going from zero to ninety in two seconds!

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Moment
  • Zero
  • Seconds

• When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.

  

  Ann Cleeves
  • Work
  • Important
  • Small

• God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • God
  • Business

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

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky