DanielVarga comments on Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/​2010

[DanielVarga]

You definitely used up all your wishes. :) The above list reordered by total karma collected:

• 158 Russell

• 109 Pratchett

• 106 Asimov

• 101 Dennett

• 100 Chesterton

• 82 Buffett

• 81 Egan

• 79 Nietzsche

• 77 Feynman

• 72 Voltaire

• 66 Scott

• 66 Neumann

• 66 Descartes

• 61 Heinlein

• 59 Dijkstra

• 58 Marx

• 57 Aristotle

• 52 Darwin

• 49 Galileo

• 48 Einstein

• 46 Taleb

• 46 Binmore

• 45 Johnson

• 43 Jaynes

• 42 Rollins

• 39 Sagan

• 34 Wilde

• 34 Dawkins

• 28 Gould

• 25 Wilson

• 25 Rochefoucauld

• 23 Huxley

• 22 Ayn

• 15 Simpson

• 13 Wittgenstein

• 13 Schopenhauer

• 12 Yudkowsky

• 12 Thoreau

• 11 Thompson

• 8 Suzumiya

• 2 Rommel

[wedrifid]

OK. Who quoted Yudkowsky? Hopefully it was quotes from elsewhere. :)

[RobinZ]

Hacker News, for one—I don’t know where the other eight points may be from.

Edit: Six more points from Methods of Rationality

[MichaelHoward]

You definitely used up all your wishes. :)

Yeah, I wasn’t precise enough on that second wish. Oh well, World Peace will have to wait.