Quotes About Impact

Starting now and lasting until forever, your health and healthcare will be determined, to a remarkable and somewhat disquieting degree, by how well the technology works.

Automation does not simply supplant human activity but rather changes it, often in ways unintended and unanticipated by the designers. —Automation experts Raja Parasuraman and Dietrich Manzey, 2010

In a perverse way, we've been lucky that the current state of health IT is so woeful. It gives us the time we need to begin to sort out how to prevent such deskilling and disengagement before the computers really take over. Let's take advantage of this window before it is too late.

there is no guarantee that the time freed up by our newfound technological efficiencies will be made available for the human touch. A look at the modern history of industrial computerization would have one lay odds that this squishy stuff will be precisely what is sacrificed on the altar of productivity, particularly once every word, touch, and minute is measured, analyzed, and priced out.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent.

Sometimes I thought I would die and other times wished I had."11 Although the FDA held a hearing on the matter, it did not impose any legal control on benzodiazepines similar to what had been placed on amphetamines and barbiturates, and so the public's belief that the drugs were relatively nonaddictive and harmless survived until 1975, when the U.S. Justice Department demanded that they be classified as schedule IV drugs

If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient?

May this not be a moment, but a movement.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. –Victor Hugo T

United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities—cities, not military bases—and drew virtually no protest from Americans.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him....

An individual is no match for history.

At the time I was living with a Mexican woman and it looked as if the relationship would be the death of her, and me, and the neighbors, and sometimes even the people who ventured to pay us a visit.

Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.

Un libro ti rimane addosso per una vita intera.

On December 3 the New York Times announced the death of Pablo Escobar on the front page. "Pablo Escobar, who rose from the slums of Colombia to become one of the world's most murderous and successful cocaine traffickers, was killed in a hail of gunfire… . "The death is not expected to seriously affect cocaine traffic.

Que me importa lo que hizo Maradona con su vida. Me importa lo que hizo con la mía.

Fast-tracked development often means that indigenous people and their territories get run over and their rights are not taken into consideration.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Cheating on research is as bad as cheating on patient care. No! It's worse. In research you can end up hurting many more people.

It is a conservation of momentum: what is diminished by time is augmented by the pencil. As the idea fades, the agitation around it has to increase to keep it alive; and as the scope of the architectural profession also reduces, the designer's visible impact on the object increases, as if to recall lost powers.

Design is action at a distance.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?