Note to self Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky Download Open image ““Note to self: Overthrow government of magical Britain at earliest convenience.”” — Eliezer Yudkowsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Note to self Politics
“Magic has always been about seizing power or subverting it, the goal in either case being freedom from the conditions of reality in which… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“Right after the war, every opportunistic governor and anyone rich enough to afford his own private army wanted magic users. That would have destroyed… — Robert Edward Copy Share Image
“Even the Raven King - who was not a fairy, but an Englishman - had a somewhat regrettable habit of abducting men and women… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“And now, Your Majesty," said Strange, "I think it is time we returned to the Castle. You and I, Your Majesty, are a British… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that she had no integrity… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“could never doubt that our fathers did a noble, glorious, and Christian deed in throwing off the yoke of Britain, and proclaiming a new… — E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams Copy Share Image
“Magic moments are the currency of life ... manage them well and you will be wealthy...” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.” — Susanna Clarke 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 Image
“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 Image
“I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 your argument on a point, ask yourself in advance what you would say if that point were decisively refuted. Would you relinquish your previous conclusion? Would you actually change your mind? If not, maybe that point… — 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 Image
“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. Actually it did make it less effective, but unfortunately not ineffective. The same could be said of Draco's clever use of reciprocation pressure for an unsolicited gift, a technique which Harry had read about in his… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Note to self: If you do not know how to spell a big scary spiders name, DO NOT look it up on the internet.… — Becky Eisele Copy Share Image
“I stared at MacFinn for a long moment. I believed that he was telling me the truth. That he didn’t have much control, if any, over his actions when he transformed. Though it occurred to me that if he wanted someone dead, he could probably point his monster-self in the right direction before he lost control. Note to self: Do… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“Decebel looked over at Fane. "A face tu fiecare a lua ce ei say?(Do you ever get what they say?)" Fane smiled at his Beta. "Nu mai incerce sa, (No longer try)." "Good call." Decebel nodded. Jen looked over at Decebel, her eyes narrowing. "No talking in foreign tongue when around the Americans." Decebel leaned towards her, the gleam in… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share
Note to self: never participate in a trend about politics. Crazy people everywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But three cheers for Alaska, they've got 24-hour hot fucking bear delivery. Note to self: Nuke Alaska.” — Mykle Hansen Copy Share Image
Note to self: When spraying hairspray, it's important to spray it into your hair, and NOT into the person's eyeballs next to you. — Candace Bailey Copy Share Image
Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Note to self: Smile, look happy and act like there is nothing wrong. People will just think you want attention anyway. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The early Christians took this story and used it as the backdrop for the doctrine of ‘The Trinity.’ For me, though, this myth has nothing to do with the belief in the father, son, and holy spirit. Rublev’s hospitality icon is important to me because by receiving the three strangers, Abraham and Sarah further their own narrative. The story of… — Eric Overby Copy Share
