Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011

https://citaty.net/

“Every group of people I ask thinks the world is more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless—in short, more dramatic—than it really is.”

Hans Rosling book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Here’s the paradox: the image of a dangerous world has never been broadcast more effectively than it is now, while the world has never been less violent and more safe.”

Hans Rosling book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“When someone threatens you with a machete, never turn your back. Stand still. Look him straight in the eye and ask him what the problem is.”

Hans Rosling book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Keep track of gradual improvements. A small change every year can translate to a huge change in decades.”

Hans Rosling book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Technology should not aim to replace humans, rather amplify human capabilities.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

“If ease of use was the only requirement, everybody would still be riding tricycles.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4ZNcMj0uw&feature=youtu.be&t=139

“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: https://via.hypothes.is/https://foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.2.php#annotations:PoEiopu_Eee_awvQEu10ag

“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/intelligence-in-the-internet-age/

“Human beings face ever more complex and urgent problems, and their effectiveness in dealing with these problems is a matter that is critical to the stability and continued progress of society”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: Program On Human Effectiveness, 1996, https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/Archive/Post68/PrHumanEffectiveness.html

“Why waste time doing experiments in the organization with technologies that are going to be out of date in 5 years or 10 years?”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OojVnbrgF2A&feature=youtu.be&start=1704&end=1772

“There’s a double pressure on the evolution of every organization: how you evolve to be more capable and effective, and efficient, but also how you stay in synch with the rest of the environment.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: https://www.dougengelbart.org/colloquium/session_01/session_01.html#7G

“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“They're all my children... every score I've done.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.”

Otto von Bismark (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany

“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”

Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer