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“Because people who are more creative also tend to be more playful, unconventional, and unpredictable, and all of this makes them harder to control. No matter how much we say we value creation, deep down, most of us value control more. And so we fear change and favor familiarity. Rejecting is a reflex.”
― Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery

“Rejection is not persecution. Drain it of its poison and what remains may be useful.”
― Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery

“Prevailing ideas are fortified by incumbency and familiarity, no matter how ridiculous they may seem later. They can only be changed by people ready to meet rejection with evidence, patience, and stamina. Semmelweis believed that saving hundreds of women was enough.”
― Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery

“The only propaganda which will ever tend to weaken itself as the world becomes more sophisticated and intelligent, is propaganda that is untrue or unsocial.”
― Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda