David Brin Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

  David Brin

  Mistake, Errors, Self

  David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books

• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Errors, Ego

  ActuSF Interview, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

• Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Errors, Accountability, Criticism

• Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

  David Brin

  Hate, Leader, Criticism

  David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?”, p.11, Basic Books

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