Ignoring the Obvious Quotes

If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.

You're the only man I know who would light a match to look into a gas can.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with.

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.