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Book cover for The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
Human beings don’t like to exist in a state of uncertainty or ambiguity. When something doesn’t make sense, we want to supply the missing link. When we don’t understand what or why or how something happened, we want to find the explanation. ...more
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C.S. Lewis
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
C. S. Lewis

“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

“Stories are important cognitive events, for they encapsulate, into one compact package, information, knowledge, context, and emotion.”
Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

“Design should be like telling a story. The design team should start by considering the tasks that the artifact is intended to serve and the people who will use it.”
Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

James Baldwin
“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

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