Diego Pino

“El sakia peleaba como un león para distinguirse y ennoblercese, no sabiendo que la vejez lo encontraría lo mismo bajo la coraza del soldado que entre los velos de seda de cortesano”
― Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, EL DESPERTAR DEL BUDA (Edición anotada, con hipervínculos a webs seleccionadas). (Colección Esenciales Vicente Blasco Ibáñez nº 3)

“The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.”
― Walt Whitman

“Mas aunque el señor de la vida te proteja y la enfermedad te respete, en medio de los placeres sabrá encontrate la vejez, y entonces tú, el más hermoso de los sakias, marcharás como un cadáver, buscando reclinar tu cabeza en la almohada eterna”
― Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, EL DESPERTAR DEL BUDA (Edición anotada, con hipervínculos a webs seleccionadas). (Colección Esenciales Vicente Blasco Ibáñez nº 3)

“The idea that a person is at fault when something goes wrong is deeply entrenched in society. That’s why we blame others and even ourselves. Unfortunately, the idea that a person is at fault is imbedded in the legal system. When major accidents occur, official courts of inquiry are set up to assess the blame. More and more often the blame is attributed to “human error.” The person involved can be fined, punished, or fired. Maybe training procedures are revised. The law rests comfortably. But in my experience, human error usually is a result of poor design: it should be called system error. Humans err continually; it is an intrinsic part of our nature. System design should take this into account. Pinning the blame on the person may be a comfortable way to proceed, but why was the system ever designed so that a single act by a single person could cause calamity? Worse, blaming the person without fixing the root, underlying cause does not fix the problem: the same error is likely to be repeated by someone else.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things