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Fred_Brooks
Design Is Important
“Mediocre design provably wastes the world’s resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important; teaching design is important.”
- Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (2010). The Design of Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 978-0-201-36298-5. Preface.
Alistair_Cockburn
People Characteristics
"People, as active devices, have success modes and failure modes. The following are the main ones that I have named and used to date:
1. People are communicating beings, doing best face-to-face, in person, with real-time question and answer.
2. People have trouble acting consistently over time.
3. People are highly variable, varying from day to day and place to place.
4. People generally want to be good citizens, are good at looking around, taking initiative, and doing 'whatever is needed' to get the project to work.
There are other characteristics that I won’t expand here:
- People need both think time and communicating opportunities...
- People work well from examples...
- People prefer to fail conservatively than to risk succeeding differently; prefer to invent than to research, can only keep a small amount in their heads, and do make mistakes, and find it hard to change their habits.
- Individual personalities easily dominate a project.
- A person’s personality profile strongly affects their ability to perform specific assignments."
- Source: Cockburn, A. A. R. (1999). Characterizing people as non-linear 1st order components in software development. HaT Technical Report 1999.03, Humans and Technology, Inc.. Retrieved 2019-06-29 from https://ameyakarve.wordpress.com
/2012/07/22 /characterizing-people -as-non-linear -1st-order- components-in -software-development -cockburn-us/.
- Keywords: People_quotes Success_quotes Failure_quotes Communication_quotes Proximity_quotes Real_Time_quotes Question_quotes Consistency_quotes Time_quotes Variability_quotes Citizen_quotes Good_quotes Observation_quotes Flexibility_quotes Altruism_quotes Conservative_quotes Initiative_quotes Project_quotes Risk_quotes Differences_quotes Invention_quotes Innovation_quotes Research_quotes Thinking_quotes Habit_quotes Personality_quotes Ability_quotes Limitation_quotes Consciousness_quotes Cognition_quotes Mistake_quotes Hard_quotes Domination_quotes Assignment_quotes Active_quotes Device_quotes Mode_quotes Beings_quotes Face_quotes Person_quotes Answer_quotes Trouble_quotes Day_quotes Place_quotes Look_quotes Need_quotes Work_quotes Characteristic_quotes Opportunity_quotes Example_quotes Fail_quotes Head_quotes Change_quotes Profile_quotes Affect_quotes Perform_quotes
David_Kipping
Parent Reality Different
“If we concede that the possibility that our observations and understanding of physics may in fact be simulated... our knowledge of physics is wholly local to the simulation and may have no real bearing on the constraints that affect a parent reality, whose rules and limitations may be entirely different.”
- Source: David Kipping from the paper “A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument”, published 2020 in the journal ‘Universe’, volume 6, issue 8. DOI:10.3390/universe6080109. Online at https://www.mdpi.com
/2218-1997 /6/8/109 (2025).
- Keywords: Concede_quotes Possibility_quotes Observation_quotes Understand_quotes Physics_quotes Fact_quotes Simulation_quotes Knowledge_quotes Whole_quotes Local_quotes Real_quotes Bearing_quotes Constraint_quotes Affect_quotes Parent_quotes Reality_quotes Rule_quotes Limit_quotes Entire_quotes Different_quotes
Isaac_Newton
Gravity
“It is inconceivable that inanimate matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact... That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance thro' a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.”
- Source: Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley. Source 189.R.4.47, ff. 7-8, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK. Retrieved 2019-11-15 from http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00258.
- Also quoted in Remler, Michael P.. The Mechanisms, Metaphysics, and History of Consciousness in the World . First Edition Design Publishing. Chapter 11.
- Also quoted in Joseph Berkovitz, Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter, 2008.
- Keywords: Body_quotes Action_quotes Distance_quotes Vacuum_quotes Mediation_quotes Absurdity_quotes Belief_quotes Humanity_quotes Philosophy_quotes Matter_quotes Competence_quotes Faculty_quotes Thinking_quotes Fall_quotes Gravity_quotes Force_quotes Inconceivable_quotes Inanimate_quotes Operate_quotes Affect_quotes Mutual_quotes Innate_quotes Inherent_quotes Essential_quotes Convey_quotes Agent_quotes Material_quotes Immaterial_quotes Left_quotes Consideration_quotes Reader_quotes
Alan_Perlis
Useful Software Systems
“We recognize that a practical problem of considerable difficulty and importance has arisen: The successful design, production and maintenance of useful software systems. The importance is obvious and the more so since we see only greater growth in demands and requirements in the future. The consequences of poor performance, poor design, instability and mismatching of promise and performance are not going to be limited to the computing fraternity, or even their nearest neighbors, but will affect considerable sections of our society whose ability to forgive is inversely proportional to their ignorance of the difficulties we face. The source of difficulty is distributed through the whole problem, easy to identify, and yet its cure is hard to pinpoint so that systematic improvement can be gotten.”
- Source: Alan Jay Perlis in a report entitled Software Engineering: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee. Chaired by Friedrich Ludwig Bauer. Edited by P. Naur; B. Randell. Conference held 1968-10-07 through 1968-10-11 in Garmisch, Germany. OCLC: 35337842. See http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/index.html ; http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF ; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102020 ; https://books.google.com/books/about/Software_engineering.html?id=Uc9QAAAAYAAJ . Page 78, Keynote address.
- Keywords: Usefulness_quotes Practical_quotes Problem_quotes Difficulty_quotes Importance_quotes Arise_quotes Success_quotes Design_quotes Production_quotes Maintain_quotes Software_quotes System_quotes Obvious_quotes Great_quotes Growth_quotes Demand_quotes Requirements_quotes Consequence_quotes Poor_quotes Performance_quotes Instability_quotes Mismatch_quotes Promise_quotes Go_quotes Limitation_quotes Computing_quotes Fraternity_quotes Near_quotes Neighbor_quotes Affect_quotes Considerable_quotes Section_quotes Society_quotes Ability_quotes Forgiveness_quotes Inverse_quotes Proportion_quotes Ignorance_quotes Face_quotes Source_quotes Distributed_quotes Easy_quotes Identify_quotes Cure_quotes Hard_quotes Pinpoint_quotes Improve_quotes
Programming Language
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.”
- Source: Perlis, A. J. (1982). Special Feature: Epigrams on programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 17(9), 7–13. http://doi.org/10.1145/947955.1083808
- Keywords: Language_quotes Affect_quotes Way_quotes Programming_quotes Knowledge_quotes Think_quotes Worth_quotes
Ayn_Rand
Not There
“But we aren't, we aren't corpses in graves. We're not there, do you understand that when this life is finished, you're not there to say: ‘Oh, how terrible that I'm a corpse.’? No, it is finished. And what I always thought and what affected me all my life: ‘I'll not die, it is the world that will end.’ And that's absolutely true. I want to enjoy life to the fullest and when it ends I don't have to worry about that. I'm not there.”
- Source: Ayn Rand during a 1979 interview with Tom Snyder on his late-night talk show, ‘The Tomorrow Show’.
- See Also:
Baruch_Spinoza
Hatred With Cause Makes Shame
“He who thinks that he has given just cause for hatred will be affected with shame; but this case rarely happens.”
- Source: A book. Entitled Ethics. Written by Baruch Spinoza. Originally published 1677. Online at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza). Translated from Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Part III, Prop. XL note.
- Keywords: Hate_quotes Shame_quotes Thinking_quotes Causality_quotes Give_quotes Affect_quotes Case_quotes Rare_quotes Happen_quotes
God Without Passion
“God is without passions, neither is he affected by any emotion of pleasure or pain.”
- Source: A book. Entitled Ethics. Written by Baruch Spinoza. Originally published 1677. Online at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza). Translated from Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Part V, Prop. XVII.
- Keywords: Deity_quotes Passion_quotes Emotion_quotes Pleasure_quotes Pain_quotes God_quotes Affect_quotes
H_G_Wells
Competent Receiver
“This complex problem of the competent receiver is the underlying problem of most of our constructive politics. It is imperative that every voter should have some conception of the experiments in economic control that are in progress in Great Britain, the United States of America, Italy, Germany, Russia, and elsewhere. Such experiments are going to affect the whole of his or her life profoundly. So, too, are the experiments in monetary and financial organization. Many of the issues involved go further than general principles. They are quantitative issues.”
- Source: Wells, H. G. (1938). World Brain chap. II (The Brain Organization of the Modern World). London, UK: Methuen and Co. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/
- Keywords: Complex_quotes Problem_quotes Competence_quotes Receiver_quotes Underlying_quotes Construct_quotes Political_quotes Imperative_quotes Voter_quotes Conception_quotes Experiment_quotes Economics_quotes Control_quotes Progress_quotes Great_Britain_quotes United_States_quotes Italy_quotes Germany_quotes Russia_quotes Affect_quotes Life_quotes Profound_quotes Monetary_quotes Financial_quotes Organization_quotes Issue_quotes Involve_quotes Generality_quotes Principle_quotes Quantitative_quotes
Steven_S_Zumdahl
Progress of Science
“The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific measuring devices. The scientific method is only as effective as the humans using it. It does not automatically lead to progress.”
- Source: Steven S. Zumdahl, Chemistry (1989), 6.
