Claudio Rodrigues

“Almost every advance in the science and technology of computation, control, and communication has also been described as an advance in the science of thought processes, usually without any evidence, usually by people who had never studied people.”
― Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

“But the people who have recently come to dominance and those who will come to dominance in the new century are increasingly aware—or can be made aware—that freedom still works in their own lives and that they effectively exempt themselves from most of the laws that take freedom away from other people.”
― Charles Murray, What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation

“The overconfidence of scientists is probably necessary: Let them believe they are on the trail of something big, something important, and they will slave away for their entire lives, working, arguing, debating, exploring.”
― Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

“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