skrubu

Toinen lainaus Thoreaulta.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
–
Henry David Thoreau: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)

Expertise helps you notice unexpected events but only when the event happens in the context of your expertise. Put experts in a situation where they have no special skill and they are ordinary novices taxing their attention just to keep up with the primary task. And no matter what the situation experts are not immune to the illusory belief that people notice far more than they do.
–
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

I’ve seen things you people could very well believe. No battleships on fire or beams of any kind glittering in some exotic location out in space, just ordinary things in common surroundings here on earth. But even those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.

(Would’ve twittered this but it was way too long.)