Tom Chatfield Quotes

“Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.”

“From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.”

“Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.”

“Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.”

“If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.”

“Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances for good and bad judgment.”

“Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.”

“There is but one good throw upon the dice which is to throw them away.”

“Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.”

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