Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:
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Audio here, Mitchell and Webb - The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
--David Frum
The oldest (non-dead) source I could find was this 2008 post by someone else quoting Frum.
Related to: Update Yourself Incrementally and For progress to be by accumulaton and not by random walk, read great books
Or you can just google it, and let PageRank do all that for you.
Peter Thiel on the Future of Innovation, in conversation with Tyler Cowen.
Nietzsche, Homer and Classical Philology, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Homer_and_Classical_Philology
Jeffrey D. Sachs on the Future of Innovation, in conversation with Tyler Cowen.
--Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Henri Poincaré, "The Foundations of Science".
Peter Thiel 50m into the interview. He only wants to fund unpopular causes because he assumes popular causes are relatively well funded.
Conversation is an art. The above is the 'well-known' Cooperative Principle.
If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby.
-Michael Jackson (Wanna be starting something)
Yet another variant on the difference between words and understanding.
Nietzsche, in Homer and Classical Philology
GK Chesterton, Heretics
(for "god" read "moral principles")
(Epistemic status: frivolous wordplay on the different meanings of "wrong.")