“Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin, wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work in Hufflepuff.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“In what weird alternative universe would that girl NOT be Sorted into Ravenclaw? If Hermione Granger didn't go to Ravenclaw then there… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You have minions! " Harry repeated. "Where do I get minions?" Draco's smirk grew wider. "I'm afraid, Potter, that the first step is… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Hermione's eyes lit up with a terrible light of helpfulness and something in the back of Harry's brain screamed in desperate humiliation.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“But I really am Ravenclaw, you know, not Slytherin. I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Also Harry was in love. It would be a three-way wedding: him, the Time-Turner, and Professor Quirrell.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Without thinking about it at all, Harry stepped in front of Hermione. There was an intake of breath from behind him, and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I will remark, that it is a common misconception of Ravenclaws that all the smart children are Sorted there, leaving none for… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“And I suspect, Mr. Potter, that if I leave you alone for two months with your schoolbooks, even without a wand, I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Frigideiro! " said Hermione again from the desk next to him. Her water was solid ice and there were white crystals forming on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Did ghosts not require a salary? Was that it? Or was it literally impossible to fire anyone in Hogwarts even if they… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Professor McGonagall says that I'm the most Ravenclaw person she's ever seen or heard tell of in legend, so much so that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You, and you alone, have reported this mysterious sense of doom. You, and you alone, are a chaos magnet the likes of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Something, somewhere, somewhen, must have happened differently... PETUNIA EVANS married Michael Verres, a Professor of Biochemistry at Oxford. HARRY JAMES POTTER-EVANS-VERRES grew… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The Headmaster told Professor Flitwick that this was, indeed, a secret and delicate matter of which he had already been informed, and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“But I really am Ravenclaw, you know, not Slytherin. I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
“If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
“He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before you stake… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
“Knowing that Draco's hopeful face had probably been drilled into him by months of practice did not make it any less effective, Harry observed.… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
“Frigideiro! " said Hermione again from the desk next to him. Her water was solid ice and there were white crystals forming on the rim… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
“And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
“And I know that I'd just make myself unhappy by comparing that reality to... something perfect that I built up in my imagination.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
