“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”

“When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.”

“Truly, we are dust and shadow; truly, desire is blind and greedy; truly, hope deceives.”

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is colour-blind.”

“You who use the eyes to find love are truly blind.”

“Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.”

“Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal?”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”

“However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. Whatever cannot become the object of discourse - the truly sublime, the truly horrible or the uncanny - may find human voice through which to sound into the world, but it is not exactly human. We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.”

“At scale, [Microsoft] is likely the only company offering a cloud solution that is truly robust enough to be trusted in what has become an incredibly unsafe world.”