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To see something that does not exist (and then create it) is surely out of touch with reality, and a form of psychosis. The reasonable man adapts himself to th
by 10ren 18y ago
To see something that does not exist (and then create it) is surely out of touch with reality, and a form of psychosis.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
- timr 18y agoI hate that quote. It makes "progress" seem inevitably adversarial, when in fact, most of the things that we see as "progress" in the world are evolutionary phenomena -- adaptive by nature.
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- 10ren 18y agoI interpret the quote as applying to things I do, not to things I see; and as difficulties in general, not necessarily adversarial.