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Aesop

Persuasion and Force

“Persuasion is better than Force.”
Keywords: Persuasion_quotes Better_quotes Force_quotes

Agile Manifesto Signatories

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
* Working software over comprehensive documentation.
* Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
* Responding to change over following a plan.
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”
  • Source: Kent Beck; James Grenning; Robert C. Martin; Mike Beedle; Jim Highsmith; Steve Mellor; Arie van Bennekum; Andrew Hunt; Ken Schwaber; Alistair Cockburn; Ron Jeffries; Jeff Sutherland; Ward Cunningham; Jon Kern; Dave Thomas; Martin Fowler; Brian Marick (2001). 'Manifesto for Agile Software Development'. Agile Alliance. https://agilemanifesto.org/ Retrieved 14 June 2010.
    • © 2001, the above authors. This declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.
Keywords: Manifesto_quotes Agile_quotes Software_quotes Development_quotes Uncover_quotes Better_quotes Do_quotes Help_quotes Work_quotes Value_quotes Individual_quotes Interaction_quotes Process_quotes Tool_quotes Comprehensive_quotes Documentation_quotes Customer_quotes Collaboration_quotes Contract_quotes Negotiate_quotes Respond_quotes Change_quotes Follow_quotes Plan_quotes

Isaac_Asimov

Computer Arithmetic

“Computers are better than we are at arithmetic, not because computers are so good at it, but because we are so bad at it.”
  • Source: Isaac Asimov, chapter epigraph in Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations, edited by Isaac Asimov and Jason A. Shulman, published in 1988 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, New York. Chapter 14, page 51. ISBN 1-555-84111-2.
Keywords: Computer_quotes Better_quotes Arithmetic_quotes Good_quotes Bad_quotes

David_Bohm

Theory Purpose

“we must avoid postulating a new element for each new phenomenon. But an equally serious mistake is to admit into the theory only those elements which can now be observed. For the purpose of a theory is not only to correlate the results of observations that we already know how to make, but also to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results. In fact, the better a theory is able to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results correctly, the more confidence we have that this theory is likely to be good representation of the actual properties of matter and not simply an empirical system especially chosen in such a way as to correlate a group of already known facts.”
  • Source: David Bohm in the paper “A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of ‘Hidden’ Variables. II”. Published January 1952 in Physical Review volume 35 issue 2.
Keywords: Avoid_quotes Postulate_quotes Element_quotes New_quotes Phenomenon_quotes Mistake_quotes Admit_quotes Theory_quotes Observation_quotes Purpose_quotes Correlation_quotes Result_quotes Already_quotes Make_quotes Suggest_quotes Need_quotes Kind_quotes Prediction_quotes Better_quotes Correct_quotes Confidence_quotes Good_quotes Represent_quotes Actual_quotes Property_quotes Matter_quotes Empirical_quotes System_quotes Choose_quotes Way_quotes Group_quotes Known_quotes Fact_quotes

Fred_Brooks

Boldness in Design

“The boldest design decisions, whoever made them, have accounted for a high fraction of the goodness of the outcome. These bold decisions were made due sometimes to vision, sometimes to desperation. They were always gambles, requiring extra investment in hopes of getting a much better result.”
  • Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (2010). The Design of Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 978-0-201-36298-5. Preface.
Keywords: Design_quotes Decision_quotes Quality_quotes Vision_quotes Desperation_quotes Gambling_quotes Hope_quotes Bold_quotes Account_quotes High_quotes Fraction_quotes Good_quotes Outcome_quotes Investment_quotes Better_quotes Result_quotes

Francis_Chisholm

Chisholm's 2nd Law of Human Interaction

“Chisholm's 2nd Law of Human Interaction. When things are going well, something will go wrong.
Corollary 1: When things just can’t get any worse, they will.
Corollary 2: Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.”
  • Source: From the essay “The Chisholm Effect” by Francis P. Chisholm, included in the anthology “A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age” edited by Robert A. Baker, published by Prentice Hall in 1982. ISBN: 0138526087, ISBN: 978-0138526085.
Keywords: Law_quotes Chisholm(topic)_quotes Human_quotes Interaction_quotes Go_quotes Well_quotes Something_quotes Wrong_quotes Worse_quotes Anytime_quotes Appear_quotes Better_quotes Overlook_quotes

Tom_DeMarco and Tim_Lister

The Light Is Better There

“The main reason we tend to focus on the technical rather than the human side of the work is not because it’s more crucial, but because it’s easier to do. Getting the new disk drive installed is positively trivial compared to figuring out why Horace is in a blue funk or why Susan is dissatisfied with the company after only a few months. Human interactions are complicated and never very crisp and clean in their effects, but they matter more than any other aspect of the work. If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you’re like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, ‘The light is better there.’”
  • Source: Book: Entitled: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Edition: 3rd. Written by: Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister. Date published: 1987; 1999; 2013. Publisher: Addison-Wesley. Country: USA; GBR; CAN; DEU; FRA; ESP; ZAF; AUS; JPN; SGP; MEX. Language: en. ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-321-93411-6 (alk paper); 0-321-93411-3 (alk paper). Chapter: 1 (Somewhere Today, a Project Is Failing).
Keywords: Reason_quotes Focus_quotes Humanity_quotes Work_quotes Critical_quotes Easy_quotes Sociology_quotes Technology_quotes Street_quotes Key_quotes Dark_quotes Light_quotes Priority_quotes Trivial_quotes Funk_quotes Dissatisfied_quotes Company_quotes Complexity_quotes Aspect_quotes Concentrate_quotes Vaudeville_quotes Character_quotes Better_quotes

Arthur_Conan_Doyle

Wisdom Late

“I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late, than never to learn it at all.”
Keywords: Confess_quotes Blind_quotes Mole_quotes Better_quotes Learn_quotes Wisdom_quotes Late_quotes

Peter_Drucker

Mistakes

“The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 147.
Keywords: Better_quotes Man_quotes Humanity_quotes Mistake_quotes Make_quotes Try_quotes Promotion_quotes Top_quotes Level_quotes Job_quotes Big_quotes Mediocrity_quotes

A Better Tool

“A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 224.
Keywords: Tool_quotes Necessary_quotes Better_quotes Big_quotes Best_quotes Do_quotes Job_quotes Requirements_quotes Minimum_quotes Complexity_quotes Power_quotes Effort_quotes

Knowledge Workers

“The newly emerging dominant group is 'knowledge workers.' The very term was unknown forty years ago. (I coined it in a 1959 book, Landmarks of Tomorrow.) By the end of this century knowledge workers will make up a third or more of the work force in the United States-- as large a proportion as manufacturing workers ever made up, except in wartime. The majority of them will be paid at least as well as, or better than, manufacturing workers ever were. And the new jobs offer much greater opportunities.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Age of Social Transformation”, The Atlantic Monthly; Nov. 1994; Vol. 274, No. 5. p. 53-80.
Keywords: Emergence_quotes Domination_quotes Group_quotes Knowledge_quotes Worker_quotes Term_quotes Unknown_quotes Year_quotes Coin_quotes Book_quotes Tomorrow_quotes End_quotes Century_quotes Work_quotes Force_quotes United_States_quotes Large_quotes Proportion_quotes Manufacture_quotes Wartime_quotes Majority_quotes Pay_quotes Better_quotes Job_quotes Great_quotes Opportunity_quotes

Epictetus

Unconnected Reasoning

“These reasonings are unconnected: ‘I am richer than you, therefore I am better’; ‘I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better.’ The connection is rather this: ‘I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;’ ‘I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours.’ But you, after all, are neither property nor style.”
  • Source: The words of Epictetus from the book “The Enchiridion” as recorded by his student Arrian in the second century. Verse 46.
Keywords: Reason_quotes Unconnected_quotes Rich_quotes Better_quotes Eloquent_quotes Rather_quotes Property_quotes Greater_quotes Style_quotes Neither_quotes Are_quotes

Samuel_C_Florman

More Engineers

“We need more engineers, better engineers, and ‘greater’ engineers.”
  • Source: From the book “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering” by {Samuel C. Florman}. Second edition published in 1994 by {St. Martin's Press}, New York, NY. First edition published in 1976. Kindle edition published in 2023. E-book ISBN 978-1466842366. Preface to the second edition.
Keywords: Engineer_quotes More_quotes Better_quotes Great_quotes

Henry_Ford

Capital

“Capital that is not constantly creating more and better jobs is more useless than sand. Capital that is not constantly making conditions of daily labour better and the reward of daily labour more just, is not fulfilling its highest function. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life. Unless we in our industries are helping to solve the social problem, we are not doing our principal work.”
  • Source: Henry Ford. A book. Entitled My Life and Work. Written by Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther. Published 1922, Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Chapter XIII.
Keywords: Capital_quotes Create_quotes Constant_quotes Better_quotes Job_quotes Uselessness_quotes Sand_quotes Labor_quotes Justice_quotes Fulfill_quotes Function_quotes High_quotes Money_quotes Life_quotes Industry_quotes Society_quotes Problem_quotes Work_quotes Principal_quotes Reward_quotes Daily_quotes Service_quotes Help_quotes Solve_quotes

Wages

“There is nothing to running a business by custom – to saying: 'I pay the going rate of wages.' The same man would not so easily say: 'I have nothing better or cheaper to sell than any one has.' No manufacturer in his right mind would contend that buying only the cheapest materials is the way to make certain of manufacturing the best article. Then why do we hear so much talk about the 'liquidation of labour' and the benefits that will flow to the country from cutting wages – which means only the cutting of buying power and the curtailing of the home market? What good is industry if it be so unskillfully managed as not to return a living to everyone concerned? No question is more important than that of wages – most of the people of the country live on wages. The scale of their living – the rate of their wages – determines the prosperity of the country.”
  • Source: Henry Ford. A book. Entitled My Life and Work. Written by Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther. Published 1922, Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Chapter VIII.
Keywords: Business_quotes Pay_quotes Rate_quotes Wage_quotes Manufacture_quotes Sell_quotes Mind_quotes Buy_quotes Cheap_quotes Material_quotes Liquidation_quotes Labor_quotes Benefit_quotes Cut_quotes Power_quotes Market_quotes Industry_quotes People_quotes Prosperity_quotes Country_quotes Inequality_quotes Nothing_quotes Run_quotes Custom_quotes Say_quotes Man_quotes Easy_quotes Better_quotes Contend_quotes Best_quotes Article_quotes Hear_quotes Talk_quotes Curtail_quotes Home_quotes Management_quotes Living_quotes Question_quotes Important_quotes Scale_quotes Determine_quotes

French_Proverbs

Enemy of the Good

“The Greatest Enemy of the Good is the Better.”
  • Source: French proverb shared by G.W.F. Hegel in his book 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right', originally written in 1820, republished in 1991 by Cambridge University Press, translated by H. B. Nisbet.
Keywords: Enemy_quotes Good_quotes Better_quotes Greatest_quotes

Galen

Seeks the Truth

“It would be better, I think, for the man who really seeks the truth not to ask what the poets say; rather, he should first learn the method of finding the scientific premises that I discussed in the second book; then he should train and exercise himself in this method; and when his training is sufficiently advanced, then, as he approaches each particular problem, he should enquire into the premise needed for proving it, which premise he should take from simple sense-perception, which from experience, whether drawn from life or from the arts, which from the truths clearly apprehended by the mind, in order to draw out from them the desired conclusion.”
  • Source: Galen, On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato,: PHP III 8.35.1-11 translation: De Lacy, Phillip (1978- 1984) Galen, On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato, Berlin. p. 233; cited in: Christopher Jon Elliott. "Galen, Rome and the Second Sophistic." p. 147-148.
Keywords: Better_quotes Thinking_quotes Truth_quotes Poetry_quotes Learning_quotes Methodology_quotes Science_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Training_quotes Exercise_quotes Problem_quotes Proof_quotes Premise_quotes Assumption_quotes Perception_quotes Sense_quotes Experience_quotes Life_quotes Art_quotes Comprehension_quotes Mind_quotes Conclusion_quotes Man_quotes Seek_quotes Ask_quotes Find_quotes

Gordon_Glegg

User Specifications

“If you are concerned in making the production of some article quicker, better or cheaper, you will naturally study how it is being done at the moment. It may seem paradoxical but the man least likely to help you is the operator in charge of the machine. The more 'down-to-earth' and 'practical' he considers himself the more 'unpractical' and 'up-in-the-air' he is likely to be from your point of view. He is too near the machine to know why it works. He only knows how it works.”
  • Source: Glegg, G. L. (1969). The Design of Design. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-511-79996-9. Chapter 1, page 12.
Keywords: Concern_quotes Production_quotes Quick_quotes Fast_quotes Better_quotes Cheap_quotes Study_quotes Paradox_quotes Status_Quo_quotes Operator_quotes Machine_quotes Practical_quotes Perspective_quotes Point_of_View_quotes Knowledge_quotes Unpractical_quotes DownToEarth_quotes UpInTheAir_quotes

Yuval_Noah_Harari

Balance Truth and Order

“Simply increasing the speed and efficiency of our information technology doesn’t necessarily make the world a better place. It only makes the need to balance truth and order more urgent.”
  • Source: Yuval Noah Harari writing in his book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’. Published in 2024 by Random House. Kindle edition. Chapter 3 page 39. ISBN 978-0593734247.
Keywords: Increase_quotes Speed_quotes Efficiency_quotes Information_quotes Technology_quotes Make_quotes World_quotes Better_quotes Place_quotes Need_quotes Truth_quotes Balance_quotes Order_quotes Urgent_quotes

Role of AI

“AI is taking up the role of both bureaucrats and mythmakers. AI systems know how to find and process data better than flesh-and-blood bureaucrats, and AI is also acquiring the ability to compose stories better than most humans.”
  • Source: Yuval Noah Harari writing in his book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’. Published in 2024 by Random House. Kindle edition. Chapter 3 page 68. ISBN 978-0593734247.
Keywords: Artificial_Intelligence_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Role_quotes Bureaucrat_quotes Mythmaker_quotes System_quotes Knowledge_quotes Find_quotes Process_quotes Data_quotes Better_quotes Flesh_quotes Blood_quotes Acquire_quotes Ability_quotes Compose_quotes Story_quotes Human_quotes

Heraclitus

Conceal Ignorance

“It is better to conceal ignorance, but it is hard to do so in relaxation and over wine.”
  • Source: Heraclitus from the book “The Fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature” translated by G. T. W. Patrick, published in 1889 by N. Murray of Baltimore, Maryland. Fragment CVIII. Page 109. Fragment originally written by Heraclitus circa 475 BCE.
Keywords: Better_quotes Conceal_quotes Ignorance_quotes Hard_quotes Relax_quotes Wine_quotes Hide_quotes

Carl_Jung

Laws and Teachings

“Laws and teachings held in common compel people to solitude, so that they may escape the pressure of undesirable contact, but solitude makes people hostile and venomous. Therefore give people dignity and let each of them stand apart, so that each may find his own fellowship and love it. Power stands against power, contempt against contempt, love against love. Give humanity dignity, and trust that life will find the better way.”
  • Source: Written by Carl G. Jung in ‘The Red Book’, also known as ‘Liber Novus’, which was originally written from 1914 to 1930. It was first published in 2009 by W. W. Norton in a facsimile edition, complete with an English translation. The edition used here is the book ‘The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition’, written by C. G. Jung, edited with an introduction by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani; published by W. W. Norton in 2012; ISBN 978-0393089080; Page 126.
Keywords: Law_quotes Teaching_quotes Hold_quotes Common_quotes Compel_quotes People_quotes Solitude_quotes Escape_quotes Pressure_quotes Undesirable_quotes Contact_quotes Hostile_quotes Venomous_quotes Dignity_quotes Stand_quotes Apart_quotes Each_quotes Find_quotes Fellowship_quotes Love_quotes Power_quotes Contempt_quotes Humanity_quotes Trust_quotes Life_quotes Better_quotes Way_quotes

Ray_Kurzweil

Improving Technology

“...nearly every aspect of life is getting progressively better as a result of exponentially improving technology.”
  • Source: Ray Kurzweil in his book “The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI”, published in 2024 by Random House. ISBN 978-0593152348.
Keywords: Aspect_quotes Life_quotes Progress_quotes Better_quotes Result_quotes Exponential_quotes Improve_quotes Technology_quotes

Parkinson_and_Margulieux

Spatial Skills

“Higher spatial reasoning skills universally correlate with better STEM [Science Technology Engineering Mathematics] performance and achievement... This correlation is particularly interesting because spatial skills can be trained, and spatial skills training globally improves STEM performance and achievement.”
  • Source: From the journal article entitled “Improving CS Performance by Developing Spatial Skills”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 68, number 1, 2025-01. DOI:10.1145/3680409.
Keywords: High_quotes Spatial_quotes Reason_quotes Skill_quotes Universal_quotes Correlation_quotes Better_quotes STEM_quotes Science_quotes Technology_quotes Engineering_quotes Mathematics_quotes Performance_quotes Achievement_quotes Interest_quotes Train_quotes Global_quotes Improve_quotes

Roger_Penrose

Self-Evident Truth

“Like so many works that have had a great impact on human thinking, it [Schrödinger's book ‘What is Life’] makes points that, once they are grasped, have a ring of almost self-evident truth; yet they are still blindly ignored by a disconcertingly large proportion of people who should know better.”

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James_Randi

Science Is Best Defined

“Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.”
  • Source: James Randi, The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer (1993), Page 66.
Keywords: Science_quotes Definition_quotes Careful_quotes Logic_quotes Search_quotes Knowledge_quotes Aspect_quotes Universe_quotes Obtain_quotes Examination_quotes Availability_quotes Evidence_quotes Subject_quotes Correction_quotes Improvement_quotes Discovery_quotes Better_quotes Magic_quotes Work_quotes Discipline_quotes

Adam_Smith

Corporations not Necessary

“The pretence that corporations are necessary for the better government of the trade is without any foundation.”
  • Source: Adam Smith (1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London, England: ‎W. Strahan and T. Cadell. Book I chapter X.
Keywords: Pretense_quotes Corporation_quotes Need_quotes Government_quotes Trade_quotes Foundation_quotes Better_quotes

Solomon

Eat and Drink (Ecclesiastes 2:24)

(24) “There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.”
Keywords: Humanity_quotes Better_quotes Eat_quotes Drink_quotes Soul_quotes Good_quotes Labor_quotes Man_quotes

Frederick_Winslow_Taylor

Kindly Interest

“...in order to have any hope of obtaining the initiative of his workmen the manager must give some special incentive to his men beyond that which is given to the average of the trade. This incentive can be given in several different ways, as, for example, the hope of rapid promotion or advancement; higher wages, either in the form of generous piece-work prices or of a premium or bonus of some kind for good and rapid work; shorter hours of labor; better surroundings and working conditions than are ordinarily given, etc., and, above all, this special incentive should be accompanied by that personal consideration for, and friendly contact with, his workmen which comes only from a genuine and kindly interest in the welfare of those under him.”
  • Source: F.W. Taylor, 1911. Principles of Scientific Management. New York and London, Harper & brothers. Chapter 1.
Keywords: Employment_quotes Scientific_Management_quotes Interest_quotes Management_quotes Incentive_quotes Compensation_quotes Promotion_quotes Bonus_quotes Labor_quotes Environment_quotes Hours_quotes Friendliness_quotes Kindness_quotes Welfare_quotes Human_Resources_quotes Science_quotes Order_quotes Hope_quotes Obtain_quotes Initiative_quotes Workman_quotes Manager_quotes Special_quotes Men_quotes Beyond_quotes Give_quotes Average_quotes Trade_quotes Different_quotes Rapid_quotes Advancement_quotes Higher_quotes Wage_quotes Generous_quotes Piece_quotes Work_quotes Price_quotes Premium_quotes Good_quotes Short_quotes Better_quotes Surrounding_quotes Condition_quotes Ordinary_quotes Incentive_quotes Accompany_quotes Personal_quotes Consideration_quotes Friendly_quotes Contact_quotes Genuine_quotes Kind_quotes

John_Tukey

Right Question

“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”
  • Source: John Tukey. The future of data analysis. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33 (1), (1962), page 13.
Keywords: Better_quotes Approximation_quotes Answer_quotes Right_quotes Question_quotes Vagueness_quotes Exact_quotes Wrong_quotes Precision_quotes

Gerald_Weinberg

Faster Programming Demands Better Programmers

“If we have to have the program faster, we shall have to hire a better man for the job.”
  • Source: Chapter 5. Weinberg, G. M. (2011). The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition) | 1971. Weinberg & Weinberg.
Keywords: Fast_quotes Programming_quotes Programmer_quotes Hiring_quotes Better_quotes Man_quotes Job_quotes

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem

“Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states — in terms appropriate to the present context — that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments. By stretching our imagination a bit, we can see how this might apply to computer programs as well.”
  • Source: Chapter 2. Weinberg, G. M. (2011). The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition) | 1971. Weinberg & Weinberg.
Keywords: Fundamental_quotes Theorem_quotes System_quotes Environment_quotes Adaptability_quotes Imagination_quotes Computer_quotes Program_quotes Programming_quotes Better_quotes Particular_quotes Stretch_quotes Bit_quotes Might_quotes Law_quotes Fisher(topic)_quotes

Allen_Wheelis

Science Accuracy Certainty

“Science would have us believe that such accuracy, leading to certainty, is the only criterion of knowledge, would make the trial of Galileo the paradigm of the two points of view which aspire to truth, would suggest, that is, that the cardinals represent only superstition and repression, while Galileo represents freedom. But there is another criterion which is systematically neglected in this elevation of science. Man does not now — and will not ever — live by the bread of scientific method alone. He must deal with life and death, with love and cruelty and despair, and so must make conjectures of great importance which may or may not be true and which do not lend themselves to experimentation: It is better to give than to receive; Love thy neighbor as thyself; Better to risk slavery through non-violence than to defend freedom with murder. We must deal with such propositions, must decide whether they are true, whether to believe them, whether to act on them — and scientific method is no help for by their nature these matters lie forever beyond the realm of science.”
  • Source: Allen Wheelis, In The End of the Modern Age (1973), 89.
Keywords: Science_quotes Belief_quotes Accuracy_quotes Lead_quotes Certainty_quotes Criteria_quotes Knowledge_quotes Trial_quotes Galileo(topic)_quotes Paradigm_quotes Point_quotes View_quotes Aspiration_quotes Truth_quotes Suggestion_quotes Cardinal_quotes Representation_quotes Superstition_quotes Repression_quotes Freedom_quotes Systematic_quotes Neglect_quotes Elevation_quotes Humanity_quotes Bread_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Deal_quotes Living_quotes Death_quotes Love_quotes Cruel_quotes Despair_quotes Conjecture_quotes Importance_quotes True_quotes Lend_quotes Experiment_quotes Better_quotes Give_quotes Recieve_quotes Neighbor_quotes Risk_quotes Slavery_quotes Violence_quotes Non-Violence_quotes Defend_quotes Murder_quotes Proposition_quotes Decision_quotes Act_quotes Help_quotes Nature_quotes Forever_quotes Beyond_quotes Realm_quotes Man_quotes Method_quotes

Ellis_Leon_Yochelson

Scientists Make Predictions

“Scientists are supposed to make predictions, probably to prove they are human and can be as mistaken as anyone else. Long-range predictions are better to make because the audience to whom the prediction was made is no longer around to ask questions. The alternative... is to make conflicting predictions, so that one prediction may prove right.”
  • Source: Ellis Leon Yochelson. 'Fossils—The How and Why of Collecting and Storing', Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (1969), 82, 597.
Keywords: Scientist_quotes Science_quotes Suppose_quotes Prediction_quotes Probability_quotes Proof_quotes Human_quotes Mistake_quotes Anyone_quotes Long_quotes Range_quotes Better_quotes Make_quotes Audience_quotes Ask_quotes Question_quotes Alternative_quotes Conflict_quotes Right_quotes

Edward_Yourdon

Better Programming Languages

“Better coding techniques may do nothing more than help you arrive at a disaster sooner than before. Better programming languages, used without anything else, may be just what your programmers need to develop a brilliant solution to the wrong problem.”
  • Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 2, section 2.1, page 27.
Keywords: Better_quotes Coding_quotes Technique_quotes Nothing_quotes Help_quotes Arrive_quotes Disaster_quotes Soon_quotes Programming_quotes Language_quotes Use_quotes Need_quotes Programmer_quotes Develop_quotes Brilliant_quotes Solution_quotes Wrong_quotes Problem_quotes

Better Business

“To stay in business, you have to be better — better than you were last year, better than you were yesterday. But you can't improve if you don't know your current situation.”
  • Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 3, section 7.1, page 170.
Keywords: Metric_quotes Stay_quotes Business_quotes Be_quotes Better_quotes Year_quotes Last_quotes Yesterday_quotes Improve_quotes Know_quotes Current_quotes Situation_quotes
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