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 * "When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
 * "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part"
 * "Here, gentlemen, good does not ultimately triumph at the expense of a few bruises and a non-threatening shoulder wound. Here, evil is generally defeated by a more organized kind of evil."
-* "Censorship is like telling a man he can't eat a steak because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain (attributed to him; possibly not  said by him)
+* "Censorship is like telling a man he can't eat a steak because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain (attributed to him; possibly not //actually// said by him)
 * "The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." - Malcolm Turnbull when he was Australian Prime Minister
 * "God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time".— Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
 * "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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 * "Economics says "there is no such thing as a free lunch", and people are more interested in the lie that they can have a free lunch. If people viewed physics the way they viewed economics, everyone would be begging for perpetual motion machines and scapegoating groups of people over the fact that the perpetual motion machines they voted for don't work."
 * "A motivational eclipse occurs when the Moon gets between you and your goals. You can’t let it stop you! Destroy it! Destroy the Moon!"
 * "An apoc eclipse occurs when the Great Beast 666, with seven heads and ten horns, and upon the horns ten crowns, and upon its heads the name of blasphemy, gets between the Earth and the Sun. Extremely fatal."
-* "A Java eclipse occurs when your IDE gets in between you and your code." ()
-* "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy."
+* "A Java eclipse occurs when your IDE gets in between you and your code." ([[https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/02/little-known-types-of-eclipse/|past three from here]])
+* "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy." [[https://qntm.org/destroy|- Sam Hughes]]
 * “Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in form but not in content because they don't actually tell you anything you don't already know, or they answer every question except the one you're asking, or you open them and a giant animated paper clip leaps out and cheerfully asks where you want to go today. And wikis are worse.”  ― Cory Doctorow, The Rapture of the Nerds
 * "Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison."
 * "Eventually all the people who hate this kind of thing are going to be dead, and the ones who use it are going to be in control." - Patricia Cukor-Avila
-* "I carry around a key to a helicopter. The key fits all Apache helicopters." -
+* "I carry around a key to a helicopter. The key fits all Apache helicopters." - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dj65o9/what_is_most_useless_item_you_carry_with_you_all/f42pzpg/|reddit]]
 * "Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home." - also Good Omens
 * "The owner of a voice like that would be the sort of person who, before making a plastic model kit, would not only separate and count all the pieces before commencing, as per the instructions, but also paint all the bits that needed painting first and leave them to dry properly prior to construction. All that separated this voice from chartered accountancy was a matter of time." - also also Good Omens
 * "Plan A had worked. Plan B had failed. Everything depended on Plan C, and there was one drawback to this: he had only ever planned as far as B." - also also also that
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 * “Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them.” - A. C. Hobbs
 * "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." - David Wheeler
 * "Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes." - David Wheeler, maybe
-* "I've realized over time that "common sense" is a term we use for things that are obvious to us but not others" - "Shog9"
+* "I've realized over time that "common sense" is a term we use for things that are obvious to us but not others" - "Shog9" [[https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/335708/under-what-circumstances-will-stack-exchange-inc-share-private-sensitive-infor/335749#comment1106974_335749|here]]
 * "You cannot stop people from doing things by simply prohibiting them - always dig for root causes and offer alternatives"
 * "Ignorance of insecurity does not get you security."
 * "I don't always believe in things, but when I do, I believe in them alphabetically."
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 * "If a business has to lobby like mad to stay in business, then maybe that business shouldn't be in business."
 * "People complain that there is too much neo-Puritanism around these days, but they usually just mean people are moralistic reformers. I have the opposite worry: what happened to these people? When was the last time you saw somebody called Hiram invent five different crazy machines, found a new religion, and have twelve children who he named after Greek nymphs? Anyone who is serious about “Making America Great Again” should be deeply worried." - Scott Alexander
 * "There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one."
-* "I promised that I would give you an answer; I never promised that it would be truthful or good or satisfying or helpful. An answer is only a reaction to a question. I reacted, so that was your answer." -
+* "I promised that I would give you an answer; I never promised that it would be truthful or good or satisfying or helpful. An answer is only a reaction to a question. I reacted, so that was your answer." - [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13451176/9/Chili-and-the-Chocolate-Factory-Fudge-Revelation|this very weird story]]
 * "libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole" - @alicemaz
 * "Personal development twitter is funny because every other day someone discovers the One True Trick for Solving Ennui like the typical-mind fallacy doesn't exist"
 * "I've found that some people are literally incapable of conceiving that other people aren't just copies of their own mind in a different body with different life experiences."
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 * "gradient descent is the successor to evolution"
 * "the moral of the tower of babel is that some time between the building of the tower of babel and the advent of modern high rise buildings someone fought god and won"
 * ""the threat model for AGI is being able to punch many people at the same time" really does sum up earth culture, doesn't it"
-* "all men want is a lot of hbm and some missiles"
+* "all men want is a lot of hbm and some missiles"
+* "What are some good beliefs for a guy trying to get into contrarianism?"