Nasim

“Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here.
- With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world?
- No! I mean yes - well, NO!
- I think i should perhaps be alarmed that you have trouble answering the question.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“I am going to tear apart your pathetic little magical remnant of the Dark Ages into pieces smaller than its constituent atoms.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“For an instant Harry imagined his own Mum and Dad in Azkaban with the Dementors sucking out their life, draining away the happy memories of their love for him. Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shutdown and told him never to imagine that again.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality