Craig Main

“That is why you need to tap an extraordinarily powerful epistemological tool, nomological networks of cumulative evidence, to help you coherently synthesize information from multiple and disparate sources.4”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“voice even more. “You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie—you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that’s honorable in its way; well, but we can’t even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I’ll kiss you for it. Lying in one’s own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else’s way; in the first case you’re a man, and in the second—no better than a bird! The truth won’t go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. Well, so where are we all now? With”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime And Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue

“I went to a lunch with him in San Francisco where he droned on for an hour and was boring as hell, like one of those dolls where you pull the string and it just says the same mindless phrases over and over.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“because I lie, too—in the end we’ll lie our way to the truth,”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime And Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue