Comment by lharding on Rationality Quotes October 2013 · 2013-10-03T20:42:02.423Z · LW · GW

I suppose modifying a proverb thus may count as quoting myself, in which case I offer to retract this one upon nonzero level of consensus that I've broken the rules.

Comment by lharding on Rationality Quotes October 2013 · 2013-10-03T20:40:08.974Z · LW · GW

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king^Wa dangerous heretic^W^W^Wangry that no one cares about visual design.

[where ^W represents the EMACS "delete word" command and my annoyance at LW's lack of a strikethrough formatting option]

Comment by lharding on Rationality Quotes August 2011 · 2011-08-03T20:53:48.798Z · LW · GW

“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets^W heuristics.” --Apologies to Andre Malraux