Travis Kalanick Quotes

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.

But even the people who don't like my opinions must admit that I always have a reason behind what I say.

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).