Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

Harry Had Always Been Frightened Of Ending Up As One Of Those Child Prodigies That Never Amounted To Anything And Spent The Rest Of Their Lives Boasting About How Far Ahead They'd Been At Age Ten. But Then Most Adult Geniuses Never Amounted To Anything Either. There Were Probably A Thousand People As Intelligent As Einstein For Every Actual Einstein In History. Because Those Other Geniuses Hadn't Gotten Their Hands On The One Thing You Absolutely Needed To Achieve Greatness. They'd Never Found An Important Problem.

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