Ken MacLeod book Learning the World
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 237)
“I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.”
From an interview on MTV with Zeca Camargo, 1993-01-21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
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C. D. Broad (1887–1971) English philosopher
Perception, Physics, and Reality : An Enquiry into the Information that Physical Science can Supply about the Real (1914), Ch. 1 : On The Arguments Against Naïf Realism Independent of the Causal Theory of Perception
Context: It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be. Common-sense is naively realistic wherever it does not think that there is some positive reason why it should cease to be so. And this is so in the vast majority of its perceptions. When we see a tree we think that it is really green and really waving about in precisely the same way as it appears to be. We do not think of our object of perception being 'like' the real tree, we think that what we perceive is the tree, and that it is just the same at a given moment whether it be perceived or not, except that what we perceive may be only a part of the real tree.
“Pathetic, naive, like small noisy tantrums.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
On the e-book Poets Against the War. <br class="br">Interview with The Daily Telegraph promoting his book The Ode Less Travelled. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3647424/The-would-be-don.html <br class="br">2000s
“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?”
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
“It pained him to think how naive he had once been.”
Michael Swanwick book Jack Faust
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 19, “Ashes” (p. 328)
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue?"
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Refering to his conclusion to the Barber paradox or Russell's paradox. <br class="br">Dijkstra (1985) Where is Russell's paradox? http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD923a.html (EWD 923A). <br class="br">1980s