Claudio Rodrigues

“Victims of the delusion that equality and liberty are the better assured by the multiplication of laws, nations daily consent to put up with trammels increasingly burdensome. They do not accept this legislation with impunity. Accustomed to put up with every yoke, they soon end by desiring servitude, and lose all spontaneousness and energy.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“The idea of delivering information by telephone is actually a pretty good one, but the medium does not support it. Voice is too slow, too transient, and the telephone keypad too limited.”
― Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“It is easy to devise numerous possible scenarios of future developments, each one, on the face of it, equally likely.”
― Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine