Source: Darkfever
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.”
Source: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter II, The Short Period, p. 23
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.”
Source: Bloodfever
90th Birthday Reflections (2007)
Context: Communication technologies are necessary, but not sufficient, for us humans to get along with each other. This is why we still have many disputes and conflicts in the world. Technology tools help us to gather and disseminate information, but we also need qualities like tolerance and compassion to achieve greater understanding between peoples and nations.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we've learnt something from the most barbaric century in history — the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation…
