There are no limits to thought, everything can be understood, one day everything will be understood.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
All the time there is use there is use and any time there is a surface there is a surface, and every time there is an exception there is an exception and every time there is a division there is a dividing.
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
Ultimately, dramatic achievements have always taken us past our fears and overcome denialism–because progress offers hope and for humans nothing beats hope.
– Michael Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
I wondered how much of this was science fiction, and how much was genuinely likely to happen.
– Michael Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
There is no more to be said about disorder than it says itself.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
Everyone knows how different we all are from each other.
– Michael Specter, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
…human beings know more about the world than they can explain via a formal system.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
You want to win the game, of course, and perhaps you want to see the game’s narrative completed.
– Steven Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good For You
This is not, incidentally, a universe of pure numbers. Emotions factor as well.
– Steven Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good For You