I'd be in favor of doing it weekly -- when you're trying to sound profound and insightful Quality >> Quantity.

I think a good rule for these is would be to only post one suggestion per comment so that up/downvoting is more precise.

I think this is a great idea. Just post the tweet with the most upvotes in the thread?

Amusing to see this quote in a discussion about public relations.

Here's my version:

Debate anticipation and not belief. To be established honestly, belief must flow from actual anticipation. http://j.mp/9YLZjx

The first sentence could perhaps be eliminated entirely.

Debate anticipation rather than belief. Anticipation should be your focus of inquiry, from which belief should flow. http://j.mp/9YLZjx

Yay! Turns out that making college apps fit into character limits taught me useful skills!

I have claimed this twitter account. If someone can do better things with it than I can, please let me know and I'll hand it over.

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When a shiny new theory you're makin'
That's non-obviously mistaken
Nature cares not a bit
How you justify it
If it disagrees with data taken

Limericks stick in your head if you actually follow the structure. Do you really see no problem with the syllable stress "How you JUStify IT" or "If it DISagrees WITH data TAken"?

Writing a good limerick is hard. Here's my best attempt, in which I think the rhythm works, but the second rhyme relies on having the correct regional accent:

When you're making a shiny new theory
But find testing hypotheses dreary,
The most clever schemata
Can't replace actual data:
Mother Nature might be somewhat leery.

I use it because I think and thus write in one-liners. I read it because it's a nice place to post links and one-liners, and because one can dip into it as one wishes to. I read it just on the site, my girlfriend follows it on her phone as well.

I dislike many of the "rationalist" quotes in the quotes threads because I don't think that they're accurate or clear enough, but I think that some of the more simple insights can be communicated this way. Major bonus if you can embed a link to a Sequence post.

Good points.

I feel like its similar to the Dark Arts arguments that we've had before, where there's an accurate idea that doesn't sound so cool to say and making it cooler to say might make it less accurate.

A shorter sentence can play with language tricks, whereby something sounds profound without being so. A longer explanation by virtue of its length cannot sustain itself on mere language trickery.

Agreed. But there's nothing wrong with a short sentence where something is profound, and sounds so. Making those are tricky

A more detailed explanation has time and space to fully, or at least partially, reveal and explore the implications of the idea, where a shorter sentence can sound wise but have no real implications.

The more startling and potentially groundbreaking an idea is, the more actual work needs to be done to set it up properly. For instance, by itself saying "Thou art physics." while it might sound wise, wouldn't lead to a proper understanding of how that dissolves the question of free will. That requires a rather extensive explanation.

I think the tweets should just have links in them. That way people get a fun aphorism to read and remember, and if they're interested they can follow through, read the link, and get the fuller picture.

This doesn't make sense to me. The presence or absence of evidence does not determine whether a fact exists or not. Evidence refers to the basis for a belief. There can be evidence for non-facts (e.g., opinions), as well as no evidence for facts (e.g., whether the nth heaviest dinosaur that ever existed was doing something that we expect there to be a 50% chance of it doing when it was exactly 1 year old).