“How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?”
The King Must Die (1958)
Context: Don't you understand even seedtime and reaping? How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
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“In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.”
Norman Mailer book The Presidential Papers
Preface
The Presidential Papers (1963)
“I can count on one hand how many people I trust.”
Frances Bean Cobain (1992) American artist
" High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain http://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/red-carpet-dresses/a235/frances-bean-cobain-0308/" (2008)
“How can I trust you when I can't trust me”
Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur
Book of Rhymes
On Albums, God's Son (2002)
Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
Context: People can and do trust works produced by people they don’t know. The real world is still trying to figure out how Wikipedia works. A fantastic resource. Open source is produced by people that you can’t track down, but you can trust it in very deep ways. People can trust works by people they don’t know in this low communication cost environment.
“People can see the achievement and how hard work leads to it.”
Vincent K. Brooks (1958) United States general
As quoted in "African Americans in the Military" https://books.google.com/books?id=QF9grMa_84YC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22People+can+see+the+achievement+and+how+hard+work+leads+to+it.%22 (2014), by Catherine Reef, Infobase Publishing, p. 34
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2006-09-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-06-07 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/22/319, <br class="br">2000s, 2006
Stephen Jay Gould book An Urchin in the Storm
"The Quack Detector", p. 245
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)
Context: [A]s we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.