Inferential Quotes

#1. We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability.

Hilary Kornblith

#3. Victor was sinking, straight through his skin and the bed and the floor, right down into black.

V.E Schwab

#4. I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

Janeane Garofalo

#5. Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

John Thorn

#6. Anyone who gives gifts locked by blood isn't ever going to give you a bath set.

Nalini Singh

#7. I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

#8. I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.

Harry Reid