“Knowledge is not intelligence.” — Heraclitus of Ephesos
“Information is not knowledge.” — Albert Einstein
“(…) the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” — Umberto Eco
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An old man shouts, “HO!” while fighting with the electronic doors to get into the tram when he just had to push button. There’s a war against technology raging on out there. — Lisboa, Cais do Sodré, 2008-03-28
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke
“Magical thinking is a fundamental dimension of a child's thinking.” — Zusne and Jones
“The vast majority of the world's peoples (…) believe that there are real connections between the symbol and its referent, and that some real and potentially measurable power flows between them.” — Phillips Stevens Jr.
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Two teen couples are hiding under a public playground equipment. They’re playing the true hide and seek. And I’m sure they possess cell-phones, some real and potentially measurable power flowing between them. — Lisboa, Belém, 2008-03-27
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“So it will make sense to have a degree of magical thinking just to be able to deal with these devices.” — Erik Davis
