Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FoodWorldToolsDifferencesLiving

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

Andrew Weil

CommunityImpossibleMattersDreaming

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

Maxine Peake

ActingTalkMeanGetOnlyHow

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

Robert Mugabe

MeKeepYourZimbabweEnglandBlair

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Anna Deavere Smith

TeacherChildPeopleLovedFriends

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

John Scott

StyleStoryMoreSeekGetOlder

Waxing my legs is pretty much the only thing I have to maintain.

Amanda Seyfried

LegsPrettyOnlyMaintainMuch

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

Amish Tripathi

GoodBestBookThinkLongYou

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

OpinionRegretAdviceYouPossible

Even if you're having a snack, enjoying it in a beautiful teacup or on a lovely plate makes it feel like more of an event.

Mary Helen Bowers

BeautifulFeelYouMoreLovelyEven

My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.

Michelle Phan

MotherMeEnergyLovedKnowRisk

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Cocteau

ArtWillPencilPaperFilmOnly

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Josiah Strong

ChangeGreatSocietyEarthEurope

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