An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: The inability to listen and to attend is of course a mental defect; but habit may make the defect so great, that a man's ears may almost lose the faculty of hearing what another man says, and he may be able to hear only the sweet sound of his own voice. Such incapable people are generally great talkers, very tiresome, and bad companions. They cannot be debaters in public assemblies, and can only deliver themselves of their own words.
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 3-4
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 243
“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity”
“On Our Inability To Do Much.”
Dijkstra (1972) "Structured Programming", Chapter title in O.J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, and C.A.R. Hoare. Academic Press, 1972 ISBN 0122005503.
1970s
