taserian

• taserian 1 Feb 2013 14:43 UTC

  2 points

  on: Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2012 Edition

  Thank you for the data and collections of quotes! However, the link to the source code is pointing to the directory where you have the html files for the 2012 and 2009-2012 “Best of” collections, not to any .zip or .gz of the source code itself, and it seems to be pulling up a default page with the unstyled HTML version of the 2012 collection.

• taserian 19 Jan 2012 19:11 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: Alejandro1’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity quotes Jan­uary 2012

  I originally had just the second sentence, but I thought that the “making yourself right” phrase was too ambiguous (it allowed for the interpretation “correcting yourself” as well as “justifying current beliefs despite evidence”). The first sentence provided context, but then excerpting the problematic political view felt too much like editing, especially considering the contentious allegation was already in the URL. My apologies.

  Completely different topic, but is there a cheat-sheet for how to format comments for bold and italics? I would have liked to bring the focus (2nd sentence) of my quote to the forefront.

• taserian 19 Jan 2012 17:45 UTC

  −6 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity quotes Jan­uary 2012

  If your chief goal, as a thinking person, is to find a path to making yourself right, you may never amount to much of a thinking person, but you can never be disappointed.

  - Ta-Nehisi Coates

  (Edited to remove objectionable and politically biased commentary)

• taserian 4 Apr 2011 19:47 UTC

  18 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: April 2011

  On perseverance:

  It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

  -- Robert Strauss

  (Although the reference I found doesn’t say which Robert Strauss it was)

  I think it goes well with the article Make an Extraordinary Effort.