Reddit Quotes

“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
― Elon Musk

“The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art”
― Dan Rather

“It seems to be in our nature to focus on how we were wrong over the fact that we're now smarter (as if we can't be works in progress), and we often attach our egos to what we believe. A view is just how you see something. It doesn't have to define you, and trying to detach from it to gain understanding can be a very good thing.”
― Kal Turnbull

“Today you.... tomorrow me.”
― Random Mexican https www.reddit.com r AskReddit comments elal2 have_you_ever_picked_up_a_hitchhiker

“Today you.... tomorrow me.”
― Random Mexican to redditor Rhoner

“714 Pages of Reddit Collection #6 will be never enough, will they be?”
― Deyth Banger, Reddit Collection

“The idea is to don't stop... if you have started... don't stop... 24/7 Read books = You just made a official circle... (1 day life)”
― Deyth Banger, Reddit Collection

“I know, I know, I know: it’s a defense mechanism, it’s a coping mechanism, capitalism killed all my hopes so I’m entitled to this, I hate my dad, yeah yeah yeah. You certainly are entitled to live this way. The question, my friend, is whether you actually want to live this way. How’s that coping mechanism going for you, hmmm? You coping pretty good? Posting Simpsons memes really defending you against the drudgery and injustice of a broken world? I’m guessing not! How many times a day do you have to evince derision without directly stating it to be impregnable? It seems exhausting. And how fucking old are people going to get, exactly, before they decide it’s beneath their dignity to live their entire lives in sneer quotes?”
― Freddie deBoer