Steven Poole > Quotes

“The virtue it makes of its deliberately limited online component is a superb riposte to the current unthinking desperation to make everything “social” in a Twitface sense. (I recently read an article wondering how we could make books “more social”. Seriously, shut up: books have always been social.) And perhaps the most interesting aspect of Journey’s reception has been the sheer quantity of writing it has inspired, thus refuting again the mainstream prejudice that videogames and literacy are opposed.”
― Steven Poole, Trigger Happy 2.0: The Art and Politics of Videogames

“În definitiv, să nu uităm ce spunea Sherlock Holmes:"Când ai eliminat imposibilul, orice rămâne, oricât de imposibil ar părea, trebuie să fie adevărul". Deși, judecând după ferocitatea cu care un alt eminent filozof modern a fost atacat de criticii săi, n-ai bănui asta.”
― Steven Poole , Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

“[...] așa cum grânele noi ies din pământurile vechi, la fel și "toată această nouă știință" pe care oamenii o învață apare tot din bătrânele hârțoage. Geoffrey Chaucer,1380, "Parlament al păsărilor”
― Steven Poole, Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

“Doar pentru că nu știm cum funcționează un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamnă că nu funcționează.”
― Steven Poole, Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

“Dacă o idee pare muribundă sau, pur și simplu, irelevantă, poate că nu-i trebuie decât să fie introdusă într-un context cu totul nou pentru a fi trezită iarăși la viață.”
― Steven Poole, Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

“One buzzphrase that arose was 'sustainable development', which was used in two very different senses by opposing groups, because it left vague by what metric sustainability might be measured. Environmental groups meant by 'sustainability' a holistic approach by which life as we know it might be sustained. Scientists talked about 'sustainable cities' to mean cities that would not be destroyed by flooding in the wake of global warming. But to others, 'sustainable' meant a financial approach by which the oil industry as we know it might be sustained: sustainability was the minimum amount of environmental care that was affordable by those whose activities harmed the environment.”
― Steven Poole, Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

“Unele idei revin la viață iar și iar, chiar dacă ar putea să fie imposibil de confirmat vreodată.”
― Steven Poole, Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas