Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.
Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
I was single for a while and dating and... I just didn't know how to do it! I've always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend.
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it's quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach.
