Will Harvey
Will Harvey
Will Harveyis a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Setfor the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Set was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golfand The Immortal. Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Inc., an MMOG company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.
We continue to think of new things in old ways.
History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.