These slides were playing as people were seating for the Dangerous Ideas presentation at the 2008 PLA. They were accompanied by \"Revolution #9\" by The Beatles (White Album).
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Dangerous Ideas Intro Quotes
1. There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. Georges Clemenceau
2. From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
3. For those who want a quick summary of a few of the things that we anticipate will become extinct in coming years: 2009: Mending things 2014: Getting lost 2016: Retirement 2019: Libraries 2020: Copyright 2030: Keys 2033: Coins 2036: Petrol engined vehicles 2037: Glaciers Ross Dawson Blog
4. If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. F. Wikzek
5. You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix
6. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
7. Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. Nicolás Gómez Dávila
8. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
10. Your father lost his job to a robot, right? ... You probably would have banned the Internet to keep the libraries open. Lance Robertson to Detective Del Spooner in I Robot
11. Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? Frank Scully
12. What is a collection in an age of abundance ? Rivkah Sass
13. Our mission is to organize the world’s information. Susan Wojcicki, Google’s Director of Product Management
14. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger
15. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Nelson Mandela
17. A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library Westheimer’s Discovery
18. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information resources that might consume it. Herbert Alexander Simon
19. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
20. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Emile Chartier
21. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones
22. If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. Mario Andretti
26. Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. Jon Lithgow
27. If you are not criticized, you are not doing much. Donald Rumsfeld
28. One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. Chinese Proverb
29. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
30. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Unknown
31. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith
32. Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas. Unknown
33. Beaten paths are for beaten people and it's not that life is too short it's just that we're dead for such a long time. Unknown
34. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown
35. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry S Truman
36. Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up. Unknown
37. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. Unknown
38. One who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb
39. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. Mary Lou Cook