Best of Rationality Quotes
Man, I'm amazing! I'm a machine that turns FOOD into IDEAS!
-- T-Rex, Dinosaur Comics #539
When I was 14, my father was stationed in Japan. I went rock climbing with this kid from school. He fell and got injured, and I had to bring him to the hospital. We came in through the wrong entrance, and passed this guy in the hall. He was a janitor. My friend came down with an infection, and the doctors didn't know what to do. So they brought in the janitor. He was a doctor. And a Buraku - one of Japan's untouchables. His ancestors had been slaughterers, gravediggers. And this guy knew that he wasn't accepted by the staff, didn't even try. He didn't dress well. He didn't pretend to be one of them. People around that place didn't think he had anything they wanted, except when they needed him - because he was right, which meant that nothing else mattered. And they had to listen to him.
-- Dr. Greg House
| Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
-- Linus Torvalds
| "Why did I do that?" I asked.
-- The Poet Who Is Odd, Knapsack Poems by Elanor Arnason
I can't keep rationalizing away everything like this, or I'm gonna die!
-- Gordon Freeman, kind of
My hotel doesn't have a 13th floor because of superstition, but people on the 14th floor, you should know what floor you're really on. If you jump out the window, you will die sooner than you expect.
-- Mitch Hedberg (Quoted from memory)