"For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him never to imagine that again."
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
"A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again."
"He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective."
"You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and apprehending them, using to the fullest the tools you have been taught, until they shatter in your h..."
"To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance."
"Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it."
"I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised."
"All right," Harry said coldly. "I'll answer your original question, then. You asked why Dark Wizards are afraid of death. Pretend, Headmaster, that you really believed in souls. Pretend that anyone co..."
"Ending up with that gigantic outsized brain must have taken some sort of runaway evolutionary process, something that would push and push without limits.And today's scientists had a pretty good guess ..."
"Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know it too. Reading our own writing, the intended interpretation falls easily into place, guided by our ..."