The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

From that perspective, it's closed,

As I open myself to questions being posed by those from other systems, I gain perspective on how many of my beliefs are system based.

People are going to have to go to extreme measures to get an Xbox 360, ... From Microsoft's perspective, they would have liked to get out more units.

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

But the main trouble with human beings is their tendency to become trapped in the ‘triviality of everydayness’ (to borrow Heidegger’s phrase), in the suffocating world of their personal preoccupations. And every time they do this, they forget the immense world of broader significance that stretches around them. And since man needs a sense of meaning to release his hidden energies, this forgetfulness pushes him deeper into depression and boredom, the sense that nothing is worth the effort.