Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1979

Topics

IntelligencePeopleBrainSociety

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Jeremy Rifkin

AgeStepFirst StepPhysicsBiology

In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

Meg Wolitzer

TimeTalentPeopleWriteSome People

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sidney Hook

IgnoranceProtectIdealismAlasDoes

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

Tracy Morgan

FatherMeBetterJustBusinessman

Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.

Ron Chernow

CriticismAnythingOnlyThreatHe

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

Mick Fleetwood

WorkRespectWalkingFishYouDamn

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

Ludacris

CarPassionCultureAlwaysWhole

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

Lorna Luft

ParentsMarriagesBetweenThemHad

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

Josh Brolin

ThoughtLearnDoingRememberBad

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Dick Cheney

GoodBusinessChooseGoPlacesOil

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Christopher Hitchens

LifeMy LifeWriteReadTriedMuch

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

Christopher Meloni

LifeHateTheatreNightYouPlay

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