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Claude_Bernard
Experimental Method Object
“The object of the experimental method is to transform this ‘a priori’ conception, based on an intuition or a vague feeling about the nature of things, into an ‘a posteriori’ interpretation founded on the experimental study of phenomena.”
- Source: From the book "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine" written by Claude Bernard published in French in 1865 as "Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale". Translated to English by Henry Copley Greene in 1927 and republished by Henry Shuman, Inc. in 1949. Chapter II, page 27. Available online at https://archive.org/details/b21270557 retrieved 2024.
- Note: ‘A priori’ is Latin for ‘from the earlier’. ‘A posteriori’ is Latin for ‘from the later’.
- Keywords: Object_quotes Experimental_quotes Method_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Transform_quotes Conception_quotes Base_quotes Intuition_quotes Vague_quotes Feeling_quotes Nature_quotes Thing_quotes Interpretation_quotes Found_quotes Study_quotes Phenomena_quotes A_Priori_quotes A_Posteriori_quotes
Paul_Dirac
Mathematics Will Lead
“If you are receptive and humble mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.”
- Source: Paul Dirac As quoted in “The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom” (2009) by Graham Farmelo, p. 435.
- Keywords: Receptivity_quotes Humility_quotes Mathematics_quotes Guidance_quotes Leadership_quotes Hand_quotes Loss_quotes Proceed_quotes Wait_quotes Lead_quotes Unexpected_quotes Path_quotes Vista_quotes New_quotes Territory_quotes Base_quotes Operation_quotes Survey_quotes Plan_quotes Future_quotes Progress_quotes
Freeman_Dyson
Experts and Amateurs
“There is good reason to pay more attention to scientific experts than to amateurs, so long as science is based on experiments. Only trained experts can do experiments with the care and precision that experiments demand. Expert experimenters are not infallible, but they are less fallible than amateurs.”
- Source: Freeman Dyson [book/author]; “Dreams of Earth and Sky” [title]; 191 [page]; New York Review Books [publisher]; First [edition]; 2015 [pubdate]; New York, NY [publoc]; 978-1590178546 [isbn].
Hans_Hüttel
Chatbots and Programmers
“Even if chatbots should become a useful tool for programmers, their existence cannot mean the end of programming. It may well be the case that this combination of a built-in repository of code examples and the ability to easily retrieve code examples based on it can be used for generating ideas and for forms of ‘pair programming’.”
- Source: Written by Hans Hüttel in the journal article entitled “On Program Synthesis and Large Language Models”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 68, number 1, 2025-01. DOI:10.1145/3680410.
- Keywords: Chatbot_quotes Useful_quotes Tool_quotes Programmer_quotes Existence_quotes Mean_quotes End_quotes Programming_quotes Case_quotes Combination_quotes Built-in_quotes Repository_quotes Code_quotes Example_quotes Ability_quotes Easy_quotes Retrieve_quotes Base_quotes Use_quotes Generate_quotes Idea_quotes Form_quotes Pair_quotes
Steve_Jobs
Recruiting
“Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.”
- Source: Steve Jobs in Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs (ed. Prabhat Prakashan) - ISBN: 9789351869191.
Show_Them
“We have a lot of customers, and we have a lot of research into our installed base. We also watch industry trends pretty carefully. But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why a lot of people at Apple get paid a lot of money, because they're supposed to be on top of these things.”
- Source: Steve Jobs as quoted in an interview entitled “Steve Jobs: There's Sanity Returning” published in BusinessWeek, 1998-05-25. Interviewed by Ira Sager, Peter Burrows, and Andy Reinhardt. Online at https://web.archive.org/web/19991110003323/http://www.businessweek.com/1998/21/b3579165.htm retrieved 2024-05-28.
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David_Kipping
Simulation Depth Limit
“Given... the ensemble of all [simulated] realities that will ever exist, one might wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes... There should exist some limit to how deep the generations can indeed go... This is motivated by the fact the base civilization is truly responsible for simulating all of the daughters beneath it, and it presumably has some finite computational limit at its disposal.”
- 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: Simulation_quotes Reality_quotes Ensemble_quotes Exist_quotes Wonder_quotes Deep_quotes Rabbit_quotes Hole_quotes Limit_quotes Generation_quotes Motivation_quotes Fact_quotes Base_quotes Civilization_quotes True_quotes Responsible_quotes All_quotes Daughter_quotes Beneath_quotes Presume_quotes Finite_quotes Computation_quotes Disposal_quotes
Pierre-Simon_Laplace
Problems of Probability
“The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth — induction and analogy — are based on probabilities.”
- Source: Pierre-Simon Laplace in the essay “Philosophical Essay on Probabilities”, Introduction. Originally published in 1886 in French as “Theorie Analytique Des Probabilites”. English translation by Frederick Wilson Truscott and Frederick Lincoln Emory published in 1902 by John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY. Online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Philosophical_Essay_on_Probabilities/WxoPAAAAIAAJ?hl=en retrieved 2024-06-20.
- Keywords: Important_quotes Question_quotes Life_quotes Part_quotes Problem_quotes Probability_quotes Near_quotes Knowledge_quotes Problematical_quotes Small_quotes Number_quotes Thing_quotes Ability_quotes Certainty_quotes Mathematics_quotes Science_quotes Principal_quotes Mean_quotes Ascertain_quotes Truth_quotes Induction_quotes Analogy_quotes Base_quotes
Rittel_and_Webber
Wicked Problems
“The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, because of the nature of these problems. They are 'wicked' problems, whereas science has developed to deal with 'tame' problems.”
- Source: Rittel, H. W. J., & Webber, M. M. (1973). Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/BF01405730. Retrieved 2018-08-24 from http://urbanpolicy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Rittel+Webber_1973_PolicySciences4-2.pdf. Abstract.
Carl_Sagan
Technology Decisions
“...we live in an age based on science and technology with formidable technological powers... and if we don't understand it, by we I mean the general public, if it's something that - 'Oh, I'm not good at that. I don't know anything about it' then who is making all the decisions about science and technology that are going to determine what kind of future our children live in?”
- Source: Carl Sagen speaking in an video entitled 'CARL SAGEN - A Way of Thinking' posted on YouTube at https://youtu.be/J1cNaFG1VII , at 00:00:22 in video. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
Erwin_Schrödinger
Objective Nature
“While the direct sensual perception of the phenomenon tells us nothing as to its objective physical nature (or what we usually call so) and has to be discarded from the outset as a source of information, yet the theoretical picture we obtain eventually rests entirely on a complicated array of various informations, all obtained by direct sensual perception. It resides upon them, it is pieced together from them, yet it cannot really be said to contain them. In using the picture we usually forget about them, except in the quite general way that we know our idea of a light-wave is not a haphazard invention of a crank but is based on experiment.”
- Source: Erwin Schrödinger in the book “Mind and Matter”, chapter 6. Contained within the anthology “What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”. Published in 1992 and reprinted in 2013 by Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. ISBN: 9781107604667. Online at <http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/schrodinger-what-is-life-mind-matter-auto-sketches.pdf> retrieved 2024. Note: “Mind and Matter” originally published separately in 1944.
- Keywords: Direct_quotes Sensual_quotes Perception_quotes Tell_quotes Nothing_quotes Objective_quotes Physical_quotes Nature_quotes Call_quotes Discard_quotes Outset_quotes Source_quotes Information_quotes Theoretical_quotes Picture_quotes Obtain_quotes Eventual_quotes Rest_quotes Entire_quotes Complicated_quotes Array_quotes Reside_quotes Piece_quotes Together_quotes Say_quotes Contain_quotes Forget_quotes Except_quotes General_quotes Way_quotes Knowledge_quotes Idea_quotes Light_quotes Wave_quotes Haphazard_quotes Invention_quotes Crank_quotes Base_quotes Experiment_quotes
Waldo_and_Boussard
LLM Performance
“GPTs [Generative Pre-trained Transformers] based on LLMs [Large Language Models] perform well on prompts that are more popular and have reached a consensus, yet they struggle with controversial topics or topics with limited data.”
- Source: From the journal article entitled “GPTs and Hallucination”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 68, number 1, 2025-01. DOI:10.1145/3703757.
T_H_White
Learning Cure for Sadness
“‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn — pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics — why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plough.’”
- Source: White, T. H. (2011). The Once and Future King | 1939. New York, NY: Penguin. ISBN 9781101657546.
- Keywords: Best_quotes Sad_quotes Begin_quotes Puff_quotes Blow_quotes Learning_quotes Failure_quotes Grow_quotes Old_quotes Tremble_quotes Anatomy_quotes Lie_quotes Awake_quotes Night_quotes Listening_quotes Disorder_quotes Vein_quotes Miss_quotes Love_quotes See_quotes World_quotes Devastate_quotes Evil_quotes Honor_quotes Trample_quotes Sewer_quotes Base_quotes Mind_quotes Why_quotes Wag_quotes Exhaust_quotes Alienate_quotes Torture_quotes Fear_quotes Distrust_quotes Dreaming_quotes Regret_quotes Look_quotes Pure_quotes Science_quotes Astronomy_quotes Lifetime_quotes Natural_quotes History_quotes Literature_quotes Biology_quotes Medicine_quotes Theocriticism_quotes Geography_quotes Economics_quotes Start_quotes Cartwheel_quotes Appropriate_quotes Wood_quotes Beat_quotes Adversary_quotes Fencing_quotes Mathematics_quotes Time_quotes Plow_quotes
Shoshana_Zuboff
Deskilling
“While it is true that computer-based automation continues to displace the human body and its know-how (a process that has come to be known as deskilling), the informating power of the technology simultaneously creates pressure for a profound reskilling.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 57. ISBN:0465032125.
Management Circles Around Data
“As the intellective skill base becomes the organization's most precious resource, managerial roles must function to enhance its quality. Members can be thought of as being arrayed in concentric circles around a central core, which is the electronic data base.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 396. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Intellectualism_quotes Skill_quotes Circle_quotes Organization_quotes Resource_quotes Management_quotes Quality_quotes Database_quotes Data_quotes Base_quotes Precious_quotes Role_quotes Function_quotes Enhance_quotes Member_quotes Concentric_quotes Central_quotes Core_quotes Electronic_quotes
