“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”

Source: Angela's Ashes

Ma Xiaowei (2020) cited in " Wuhan Coronavirus Can Be Infectious Before People Show Symptoms, Official Claims https://www.sciencealert.com/wuhan-coronavirus-can-be-infectious-before-people-show-symptoms-official-claims" on Science Alert, 26 January 2020.

Meditel (1990)
Context: The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. If you simply have a consensus, it generally stultifies. It fails to see the problems of that consensus and it depends on the existence of critics to break up that iceberg and permit knowledge to develop. This is in fact one of the underpinnings of democratic theory. It is one of the reasons why we believe in notions of free speech and it's one of the great forces in terms of intellectual development.

"Transhuman FM-2030" http://www.transhuman.org/transhumanfm-2030.htm, transhuman.org

Source: 1990s and later, Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), p. 295

Interview with TalkAsia, November 2007

After his daughter gave birth to his grandson, October 7, 2002
Pet Phrases, 2002

Attributed to "Jimmy R." in Days of Healing, Days of Joy (1987)
Misattributed
Source: link https://books.google.com/books?id=7QNk4eNvS44C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=%22days+of+healing+days+of+joy%22+%22jimmy+r%22&source=bl&ots=C-jAUVg8y8&sig=fB9m-eQ1IvtjJV6Ncz8mZ30RRHo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMIrYnZyNDlyAIVV_5jCh07uQOs#v=onepage&q=%22days%20of%20healing%20days%20of%20joy%22%20%22jimmy%20r%22&f=false

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62