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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

“Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.”

People Ignorance Passionate Deny Coward Boast

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.”

Influence Ignorance Devil Scary Deny Doubted Diabolical

Author:Cotton Mather

“The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds”

Ignorance Economics Deny Unkind

Author:Peter L. Bernstein

“Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, has disappeared, and the entire fabric must fall. The natural is true. The miraculous is false.”

World Today Fall Natural Christianity Ignorance Foundation Deny Soil Fabric Miraculous

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.”

Law Ignorance Argument Deny Addresses Atoms Laws Of Nature Insolence

Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

“Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.”

Trying Sometimes Ignorance Walking Deny Tied Knots Willful Ignorance Blindfolded Walking Through Life

Book:The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts

Source: The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts

“Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.”

People Way Said Book Reality Law Political Found Results Numbers Ignorance Months Refuse Deny Protection Fixed Dull Statistics Dozen Unfortunate Mischief Surveys Hysteria Biased Sociologists

Author:Tom Robbins

“Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.”

Wells Facts Would Be Religion Simple Existence Atheism Fields Ignorance Planets Evolution Creatures Deny Explanation Betray Elegant Living Creatures Lack Of Education

Author:Richard Dawkins