Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Math, Thinking

• I only want power so I can get books.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Want, I Can

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, www.e-reading.club. 2010.

• 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

  Smart, Book, Skills

• Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Reality, Long Ago

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