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“The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.”

Knows Wells Lying Deals Sea Ignorance Computer Function Constant Prepared Deny Confusion Experts Programmers Fussing

Book:Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

Source: Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

“Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.”

Thinking Knows Men Speak Deals Common Imagine Teaching Ignorance He Man Speech Profound Imagine That Dogmatic Common Knowledge Teaching Others

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.”

Knows World Opportunity Levels Deals Progress Generations Information Ignorance Higher Performances Complexes Machinery Higher Level

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.”

Problem Community Deals Moral Issues Ignorance Prejudice Mental Health Ill Lgbt Stigma Collide Blight Health Issues

Author:Stephen Fry

“We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.”

Knows States Problem Deals Steps Ignorance Safe Standing All Things Solve Firm Insecure Boundless Steps Forward Flux Unsolved Problems

Author:Karl Popper

“Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!”

Humans Deals Greatness Ignorance Jazz Sexuality Celebrate Range Human Life Absurdity Jazz Music Celebrate Life Profundity

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

Source: To Jerusalem and Back

“My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.”

Problem Social Deals Poverty Economic Ignorance Periods Disease India Priorities Massive Economic Problems

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”

World Children Doe Book Kids Father Difficult Deals Darkness Issues Ignorance Protect Opposites Our Children Vulnerable Censorship Censoring Censoring Books

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”

Children Deals Ignorance Ought Racism Conscience Violent Organized Bigotry Irrational Hostile Inquiry Organized Religion Tribalism Contemptuous God Is Not Great

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.”

Knows Men Trying Firsts Littles Ends Use Science Energy Deals Knowledge Cry Ignorance Moon Waste Thirds Ignorant Reasonable Little Knowledge Reasonable Man

Author:Arthur David Ritchie