“The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.”

Source: Day

ACM Computers in Entertainment (Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2005)

Source: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 76

Pearls of Wisdom

Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order exploring the adverse impacts of military expenditures on the realization of a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx. <br class="br">2015, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council

Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).

Source: “What’s wrong with Libertarianism”, p. 427

developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee (podcast/audio plus transcript) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206txt.html <br class="br">Context: The fact that we&#x27;re all connected, the fact that we&#x27;ve got this information space — does change the parameters. It changes the way people live and work. It changes things for good and for bad. But I think, in general, it&#x27;s clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings — and the Web&#x27;s a form of communications — so it generally should be good. But I think, also, we have to watch whether we preserve the stability of the world — like we don&#x27;t want to watch this phenomena like the stock market becoming unstable when it became computerized, for example.<br>We need to look at the whole society and think, &quot;Are we actually thinking about what we&#x27;re doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?&quot;

Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy