“There's a misunderstanding somewhere, and I want to put it right. The fact is, this is a good dragon.”

The Boy to St. George
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

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British novelist 1859–1932

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Context: The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we'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's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings — and the Web'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't want to watch this phenomena like the stock market becoming unstable when it became computerized, for example.
We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we'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?"

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“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”

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“Facts are God’s arguments : we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.”

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Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 162.

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