James_Miller comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009

James_Miller 22 Oct 2009 17:33 UTC
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You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.

Warren Buffett
- childofbaud 25 Oct 2009 23:03 UTC
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  On a similar note, but from a different author:
  
  Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
  
  —Socrates
  - gwern 19 Dec 2010 23:03 UTC
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    <ChrisBradley> Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. -[[Socrates]]
    
    <silsor> ChrisBradley, that could be rewritten for us—Employ your time in improving other men’s writings.
    
    (From irc://freenode.net#wikipedia & immortalized on m:bash.)