“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
“The tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
Source: 2000s, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives (2002), p. 71
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“Geeks seem a lot more willing to treat people based on what they can do rather than who they are.”
Aaron Swartz (1986–2013) computer programmer and internet-political activist
UTI interview (2004)
Context: Geeks seem a lot more willing to treat people based on what they can do rather than who they are.
This isn’t unique to kids, of course. The Internet has an amazingly liberating aspect for everyone from blacks to the blind. So perhaps that’s one reason why I’m especially concerned about draconian proposals for an “Internet Drivers License” or a crackdown on anonymity. Quite aside from the impracticality and ineffectiveness of these proposals, they could have the effect of tagging who people are, and reintroducing those indicators that the Internet has removed.
“Our biggest tragedy is not knowing what to do with our lives.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Nossa maior tragédia é não saber o que fazer com a vida.
During the opening lecture of the course Literature and power. Lights and shadows, in the University Carlos III in Madrid. As quoted by Marco Aurélio Weissheimer in the article Saramago prega retorno à filosofia para salvar democracia, na Agência Carta Maior. (January 19th, 2004)
“What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
Gene Spafford (1956) American computer scientist
"Computer Viruses: A Form of Artificial Life?" (invited contribution); Artificial Life II, Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, vol. XII, eds. D. Farmer, C. Langton, S. Rasmussen, and C. Taylor; Addison-Wesley; pp. 727–747; 1991.
Martin Firrell (1963) British artist and activist
Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
