Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.

Andra Day

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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

John W. Gardner

PeopleSocietyKindSome PeopleJust

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that can't be.

Song Hye-kyo

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Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

Steven Levy

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I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

Roger Daltrey

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Selling books is hard to engineer.

Robin Sloan

SellingHardEngineerBooks

I'm confident in my ability that I can do well wherever it is.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I have dual citizenship with Italy.

Milo Ventimiglia

CitizenshipItalyDual

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Johnny Depp

RideThinkEnjoyYouI ThinkThing

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

Dieter Rams

FutureImportantThingsSpectacular

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.

Dominic Purcell

GoodTimeSimplePeopleMeAmerican

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