Tim O'Reilly Quotes

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

In deciding the ratings of the films, no consideration is given to artistic, technical or dramatic values. Only moral content is weighed.

If we should pass on whether or not a film is pornographic, we should take a look at it.

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

I'm not going to watch two TV shows with vaginas in them unless somebody tells me why they're different!

The blind see what they want to see.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

To me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.

There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One of them, mostly importantly really, is to have a brand that has purpose and value.

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.

When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.

Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.