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Aristotle

Men Desire to Know

“All men by nature desire to know.”
  • Source: Aristotle, ‘Metaphysics’, Book 1.
Keywords: Knowledge_quotes Humanity_quotes Men_quotes Nature_quotes Desire_quotes

Fred_Brooks

Most Useful Service for Client

“The most useful service I was performing for my client was helping him decide what he really wanted.”
  • Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (2010). The Design of Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 978-0-201-36298-5. Chapter 3, page 23.
Keywords: Usefulness_quotes Service_quotes Decision_quotes Client_quotes Desire_quotes Perform_quotes Help_quotes Want_quotes

Samuel_Butler

Scientific Mind

"The best class of scientific mind is the same as the best class of business mind. The great desideratum in either case is to know how much evidence is enough to warrant action. It is as unbusiness-like to want too much evidence before buying or selling as to be content with too little. The same kind of qualities are wanted in either case. The difference is that if the business man makes a mistake, he commonly has to suffer for it, whereas it is rarely that scientific blundering, so long as it is confined to theory, entails loss on the blunderer. On the contrary it very often brings him fame, money and a pension. Hence the business man, if he is a good one, will take greater care not to overdo or underdo things than the scientific man can reasonably be expected to take."
  • Source: Samuel Butler, Henry Festing Jones (ed.), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1917), 217.
Keywords: Mind_quotes Science_quotes Business_quotes Evidence_quotes Action_quotes Desire_quotes Mistake_quotes Suffering_quotes Theory_quotes Fame_quotes Money_quotes Best_quotes Desideratum_quotes Warrant_quotes Buy_quotes Sell_quotes Content_quotes Difference_quotes Blunder_quotes Pension_quotes Overdo_quotes Underdo_quotes

Alistair_Cockburn

Formal Development

"In the formal development of communications software, in 1987, I was given the motivation, 'The problem with software development is that there is too much ambiguity in the problem statement and in the design description. Things will go better if we get people to work with mathematical formalisms.” After some work in this area, I discovered:
Problem 1. The people on the projects were not interested in learning our system.
Problem 2. They were successfully able to ignore us, and were still delivering software, anyway.
I shifted out of formal development, hearing my formal development colleagues saying, 'The problem lies in the training. Things will go better if we start training students in the necessary mathematics earlier, i.e., secondary school.' Based on what I have learned about people, I expect this will be a frustrated desire. It is not that I doubt certain advantages of formal development, but I do doubt our ability to coax 10**6 people to master it. The question should become, 'Under what circumstances, and with what assignment, should a formal specialist be called in?'"

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: Formality_quotes Methodology_quotes Software_quotes Development_quotes Ambiguity_quotes Design_quotes Specification_quotes Requirements_quotes Training_quotes Education_quotes Specialization_quotes Communication_quotes Motivation_quotes Problem_quotes Statement_quotes Description_quotes People_quotes Work_quotes Mathematics_quotes Learning_quotes Success_quotes Ignore_quotes Deliver_quotes Colleague_quotes Student_quotes School_quotes Frustration_quotes Desire_quotes Advantage_quotes Circumstance_quotes Assignment_quotes Master_quotes

Peter_Drucker

Big Government

“No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 178.
Keywords: Matter_quotes Deep_quotes Wed_quotes Free_quotes Enterprise_quotes System_quotes Life_quotes Acceptance_quotes Need_quotes Positive_quotes Government_quotes Consider_quotes Size_quotes Scale_quotes Desire_quotes Necessary_quotes Evil_quotes Action_quotes

Max_Ehrmann

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
  • Source: Max Ehrmann [Poem/Author]; 2022/1948/1933/1927 [Dates];
    • 2022 [Book/Version/Date]; “Desiderata” [Title]; Samantha Seebeck [Editor]; Independent [Publisher]; 979-8420409275 [ISBN];
    • 1948 [Book/Version/Date]; Bertha K. Ehrmann [Editor]; Bruce Humphries, Inc. [Publisher/Name]; Boston, MA [Publisher/Location]; First [Edition]; “Desiderata” [Book/Section/Title];
    • 1933-04-05 [Magazine/Version/Date]; “Desiderata” [Title]; Michigan Tradesman [Magazine/Name]; Cover [Magazine/Placement];
    • 1927 [Copyright/Date];
    • 1927/2023 [URL/Version]; WikiSource Desiderate 1927 Version at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Desiderata [URL/Link]; 2023 [URL/Retrieved/Date]
Keywords: Composure_quotes Noise_quotes Peace_quotes Silence_quotes Friendliness_quotes Truth_quotes Honesty_quotes Communication_quotes Listening_quotes Ignorance_quotes Story_quotes Aggression_quotes Avoidance_quotes Spirituality_quotes Competition_quotes Vanity_quotes Bitterness_quotes Achievement_quotes Pleasure_quotes Plan_quotes Career_quotes Humility_quotes Time_quotes Business_quotes Deception_quotes Virtue_quotes Heroism_quotes Affection_quotes Cynacism_quotes Love_quotes Disenchantment_quotes Advice_quotes Age_quotes Youth_quotes Maturity_quotes Surrender_quotes Strength_quotes Shield_quotes Misfortune_quotes Imagination_quotes Fear_quotes Fatigue_quotes Loneliness_quotes Discipline_quotes Gentleness_quotes Self_Care_quotes Universe_quotes Children_quotes Tree_quotes Star_quotes Validation_quotes Rights_quotes Destiny_quotes Future_quotes Deity_quotes Labor_quotes Desire_quotes Sham_quotes Drudgery_quotes Dreaming_quotes World_quotes Appreciation_quotes Happiness_quotes Optimism_quotes Cheerfulness_quotes Wisdom_quotes

Albert_Einstein

Art Science Life

“I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the townsman’s irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.”
  • Source: Words spoken by Albert Einstein in an address to The Physical Society in Berlin in 1918 to honor Max Planck’s 60th birthday, Transcribed into the book 'Essays in Science' in the chapter 'Principles of Research' written by Albert Einstein and translated to english by Alan Harris. Published in 1934 by The Philosophical Library, New York, NY.
Keywords: Art_quotes Science_quotes Motivation_quotes Life_quotes Pain_quotes Hopeless_quotes Desire_quotes Objectivity_quotes Perception_quotes Thinking_quotes Escape_quotes Schopenhauer(topic)_quotes Strong_quotes Men_quotes Crudity_quotes Dreariness_quotes Fetter_quotes Temper_quotes Nature_quotes Personal_quotes World_quotes Townsman_quotes Irresistible_quotes Noise_quotes Cramped_quotes Surround_quotes Silence_quotes High_quotes Mountain_quotes Eye_quotes Free_quotes Still_quotes Pure_quotes Air_quotes Fond_quotes Trace_quotes Restful_quotes Contour_quotes Build_quotes Eternity_quotes

Dwight_D_Eisenhower

Crises and Balance

“Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defenses; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research -- these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel. But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress. Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.”
  • Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell address (17 January 1961).
Keywords: Crisis_quotes Balance_quotes Action_quotes Miracle_quotes Solution_quotes Difficulty_quotes Defense_quotes Cure_quotes Program_quotes Research_quotes Possibility_quotes Consider_quotes Weighing_quotes Private_quotes Public_quotes Economy_quotes Cost_quotes Advantage_quotes Nation_quotes Necessary_quotes Comfort_quotes Desire_quotes Requirements_quotes Duty_quotes Individual_quotes Future_quotes Judgment_quotes Welfare_quotes Progress_quotes Frustration_quotesContinue_quotes Foreign_quotes Domestic_quotes Great_quotes Small_quotes Recurring_quotes Temptation_quotes Feel_quotes Spectacular_quotes Element_quotes Development_quotes Unrealistic_quotes Ill_quotes Agriculture_quotes Dramatic_quotes Expansion_quotes Basic_quotes Applied_quotes Promise_quotes Road_quotes Travel_quotes Proposal_quotes Need_quotes Essential_quotes Imbalance_quotes

Epictetus

Destroy Desire

“For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.”
  • Source: [Speaker] Epitetus; [Greek]; [Transcription/Transcriber] Arrian; [Transcription/Date] circa 108 CE; [Note] Arrian was the pupil of Epitetus.; [Translation/Title] “Discourses of Epictetus”; [Translator] {W. A. Oldfather}; [English]; [Book/Publisher] Harvard University Press; [Publisher/Location] Cambridge, MA; [Publication/Dates] 1925,1946,1956; [Placement] Book IV, Chapter 1, Section 175; [Placement]; [Online] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epictetus,_the_Discourses_as_reported_by_Arrian,_the_Manual,_and_Fragments; [Retrieved/Date] 2022.
Keywords: Freedom_quotes Acquire_quotes Satisfy_quotes Yourself_quotes Desire_quotes Destroy_quotes

Michael_Faraday

Self-Correction

“Among those points of self-education which take up the form of mental discipline, there is one of great importance, and, moreover, difficult to deal with, because it involves an internal conflict, and equally touches our vanity and our ease. It consists in the tendency to deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of resistance to these desires. It is impossible for any one who has not been constrained, by the course of his occupation and thoughts, to a habit of continual self-correction, to be aware of the amount of error in relation to judgment arising from this tendency. The force of the temptation which urges us to seek for such evidence and appearances as are in favour of our desires, and to disregard those which oppose them, is wonderfully great. In this respect we are all, more or less, active promoters of error. In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.”
  • Source: Michael Faraday. Royal Institution Lecture On Mental Education (6 May 1854), as reprinted in Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, by Michael Faraday, 1859, pp 474-475.
Keywords: Self-Education_quotes Autodidact_quotes Mental_quotes Discipline_quotes Importance_quotes Conflict_quotes Vanity_quotes Tendency_quotes Self-Deception_quotes Wish_quotes Resistance_quotes Desire_quotes Impossibility_quotes Constraint_quotes Occupation_quotes Thinking_quotes Habit_quotes Self-Correction_quotes Error_quotes Judgment_quotes Temptation_quotes Urge_quotes Evidence_quotes Disregard_quotes Opposition_quotes Wonder_quotes Promotion_quotes Practice_quotes Self-Abnegation_quotes Tribalism_quotes Common_Sense_quotes

Henry_Ford

Charity

“Why should there by any necessity for almsgiving in a civilized community? It is not the charitable mind to which I object. Heaven forbid that we should ever grow cold toward a fellow creature in need. Human sympathy is too fine for the cool, calculating attitude to take its place. One can name very few great advances that did not have human sympathy behind them. It is in order to help people that every notable service is undertaken. The trouble is that we have been using this great, fine motive force for ends too small. If human sympathy prompts us to feed the hungry, why should it not give the larger desire – to make hunger in our midst impossible? If we have sympathy enough for people to help them out of their troubles, surely we ought to have sympathy enough to keep them out.”
  • 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 XV.
Keywords: Alms_quotes Charity_quotes Civilization_quotes Community_quotes Society_quotes Poverty_quotes Empathy_quotes Need_quotes Sympathy_quotes Calculation_quotes Progress_quotes Help_quotes Service_quotes Action_quotes Trouble_quotes Motivation_quotes Force_quotes Small_quotes Large_quotes Hunger_quotes Desire_quotes Impossibility_quotes Prevent_quotes Mind_quotes Heaven_quotes Forbid_quotes Grow_quotes Cold_quotes Creature_quotes Human_quotes Cool_quotes Attitude_quotes Advance_quotes People_quotes Notable_quotes Undertake_quotes Feed_quotes

Sabine_Hossenfelder

Understanding

“To me, my personal story is evidence that not only I but many of us have the desire to understand the universe — for no other reason than understanding the universe. Our thirst for knowledge is ubiquitous, in both individuals and societies. We want to understand, partly because understanding is useful, but also, I think, out of a primary need to make sense of ourselves and our place in this world.”
  • Source: Hossenfelder, Sabine. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (p. 223). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Keywords: Personal_quotes Story_quotes Evidence_quotes Desire_quotes Understand_quotes Universe_quotes Thirst_quotes Knowledge_quotes Ubiquitous_quotes Individual_quotes Society_quotes Useful_quotes Primary_quotes Need_quotes Sense_quotes Self_quotes Place_quotes World_quotes

Carl_Jung

Soul's Desire

“He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things of the world. He becomes a fool through his endless desire, and forgets the way of his soul, never to find her again.”
  • 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 129.
  • Notes:
    • In 1913 Jung called this turning away process the ‘introversion of the libido’ in ‘On the Question of Psychological Types’.
Keywords: Soul_quotes Desire_quotes Turn_quotes Outer_quotes Thing_quotes Reach_quotes Place_quotes Find_quotes Horror_quotes Empty_quotes Overcome_quotes Fear_quotes Drive_quotes Whip_quotes Lash_quotes Again_quotes Desparate_quotes Endeavor_quotes Blind_quotes Hollow_quotes World_quotes Become_quotes Fool_quotes Endless_quotes Forget_quotes Way_quotes Never_quotes

John_Maynard_Keynes

Human Needs

“Now it is true that the needs of human beings may seem to be insatiable. But they fall into two classes — those needs which are absolute in the sense that we feel them whatever the situation of our fellow human beings may be, and those which are relative in the sense that we feel them only if their satisfaction lifts us above, makes us feel superior to, our fellows. Needs of the second class, those which satisfy the desire for superiority, may indeed be insatiable; for the higher the general level, the higher still are they. But this is not so true of the absolute needs — a point may soon be reached, much sooner perhaps than we are all of us aware of, when these needs are satisfied in the sense that we prefer to devote our further energies to non-economic purposes.”
  • Source: From the Essay “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” written by John Maynard Keynes in 1930. Included in the book “Essays in Persuasion” edited by John Maynard Keynes and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1963.
Keywords: True_quotes Need_quotes Human_quotes Being_quotes Seem_quotes Insatiable_quotes Fall_quotes Class_quotes Absolute_quotes Sense_quotes Feel_quotes Situation_quotes Fellow_quotes Relative_quotes Satisfaction_quotes Lift_quotes Above_quotes Superior_quotes Desire_quotes High_quotes General_quotes Point_quotes Soon_quotes Aware_quotes Preference_quotes Devote_quotes Further_quotes Energy_quotes Non-economic_quotes Economic_quotes Purpose_quotes

Lawrence_M_Krauss

Think the Unthinkable

“Science has taught us to think the unthinkable. Because when nature is the guide—rather than a priori prejudices, hopes, fears or desires — we are forced out of our comfort zone. One by one, pillars of classical logic have fallen by the wayside as science progressed in the 20th century, from Einstein's realization that measurements of space and time were not absolute but observer-dependent, to quantum mechanics, which not only put fundamental limits on what we can empirically know but also demonstrated that elementary particles and the atoms they form are doing a million seemingly impossible things at once.”
  • Source: Lawrence M. Krauss, In op-ed, 'A Universe Without Purpose', Los Angeles Times (1 Apr 2012).
Keywords: Science_quotes Thinking_quotes Unthinkable_quotes Nature_quotes Guide_quotes A_Priori_quotes Hope_quotes Fear_quotes Desire_quotes Force_quotes Comfort_quotes Pillar_quotes Logic_quotes Fall_quotes Progress_quotes Measurement_quotes Realization_quotes Space_quotes Time_quotes Absolute_quotes Observation_quotes Dependence_quotes Quantum_quotes Mechanics_quotes Fundamental_quotes Limitation_quotes Empirical_quotes Demonstration_quotes Elementary_quotes Particle_quotes Atom_quotes Impossibility_quotes Concurrent_quotes Teach_quotes Prejudice_quotes Classical_quotes Einstein(topic)_quotes Know_quotes

Robert_Lawrence_Kuhn

Scientific Method

“I like to distinguish between the scientific method, which is applied to all materialistic theories. The scientific method is one of observation or experimentation, repeatability, falsification, the repeatability by different techniques of different labs, or prediction and results. It's a scientific method. I say that if it's a non-physical theory, or the theory has any aspect of non-physicalism to it, it doesn't have to be all, any aspect invalidates, to some degree invalidates, the scientific method as I just described from being applicable. And I think there's a tendency in some theories that have some non-physical aspect to try to show their legitimacy by applying the scientific method... I think that's a false desire, because once you're non-physical you are invalidating, to one degree or another, the scientific method. Maybe not totally, but in some degree.”
  • Source: Kuhn, Robert Lawrence. Within the YouTube video “All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video” on the Essentia Foundation channel, https://youtu.be/h5G6Oc_V3Lw?si=jzabxeu55GvABDFs, published 2025-08-22, video offset at 1:32:25.
Keywords: Scientific_Method_quotes Materialism_quotes Theory_quotes Observation_quotes Experiment_quotes Repeatability_quotes Falsification_quotes Different_quotes Technique_quotes Prediction_quotes Result_quotes Physical_quotes Non-physical_quotes Aspect_quotes Show_quotes Legitimate_quotes Apply_quotes False_quotes Desire_quotes Invalidate_quotes Degree_quotes Total_quotes

Michael_Sean_Mahoney

Undefined Software Engineering

“If one could not define 'software engineering' at the time, neither could one point to its practice. It was not coined to characterize an ongoing activity but rather to express a desire for one.”
  • Source: Michael S. Mahoney in a paper entitled The Roots of Software Engineering. Published 1990 in CWI Quarterly, volume 3, number 4.
Keywords: Definition_quotes Software_quotes Software_Engineering_quotes Engineering_quotes Time_quotes Practice_quotes Coin_quotes Activity_quotes Desire_quotes

Ernest_Nagel

Explanations

“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.”
  • Source: Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science (1961), 4.
Keywords: Desire_quotes Explanation_quotes System_quotes Control_quotes Fact_quotes Evidence_quotes Generation_quotes Science_quotes Organization_quotes Class_quotes Knowledge_quotes Principle_quotes Distinct_quotes Goal_quotes

Richard_Pascale

Unintended Consequences Inescapable

“Unintended consequences are an inescapable feature of life. Living systems do not follow a linear path. One can disturb them in a manner that approximates a desired outcome - but never fully direct them.”
  • Source: Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.191, Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: Intentional_quotes Unintentional_quotes Consequence_quotes Escape_quotes Feature_quotes Life_quotes System_quotes Linear_quotes Path_quotes Disturbing_quotes Manner_quotes Approximation_quotes Desire_quotes Outcome_quotes Result_quotes Inescapable_quotes Follow_quotes Direct_quotes

Rittel_and_Webber

Problem Defining Problems

“By now we are all beginning to realize that one of the most intractable problems is that of defining problems (of knowing what distinguishes an observed condition from a desired condition) and of locating problems (finding where in the complex causal networks the trouble really lies).”
Keywords: Begin_quotes Realization_quotes Intractable_quotes Problem_quotes Define_quotes Knowledge_quotes Distinguish_quotes Observation_quotes Condition_quotes Locate_quotes Complexity_quotes Causality_quotes Network_quotes Trouble_quotes Desire_quotes

Herbert_Simon

Engineering and Design

“Historically and traditionally, it has been the task of the science disciplines to teach about natural things: how they are and how they work. It has been the task of engineering schools to teach about artificial things: how to make artifacts that have desired properties and how to design.”
Keywords: History_quotes Tradition_quotes Task_quotes Science_quotes Discipline_quotes Teaching_quotes Natural_quotes Work_quotes Engineering_quotes Artificial_quotes Artifact_quotes Desire_quotes Property_quotes Design_quotes School_quotes

Baruch_Spinoza

Free Will and Hidden Causes

“Herefrom it follows, first, that men think themselves free inasmuch as they are conscious of their volitions and desires, and never even dream, in their ignorance, of the causes which have disposed them so to wish and desire. Secondly, that men do all things for an end, namely, for that which is useful to them, and which they seek.”
Keywords: Free_Will_quotes Causality_quotes Follow_quotes Men_quotes Think_quotes Free_quotes Conscious_quotes Volition_quotes Desire_quotes Dream_quotes Ignorance_quotes Dispose_quotes Wish_quotes Do_quotes End_quotes Useful_quotes Seek_quotes Hidden_quotes

John_Tukey

Desire for an Answer

“The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.”

  • Source: John Tukey. A paper entitled Sunset Salvo. The American Statistician, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb., 1986), pp. 72-76. DOI: 10.2307/2683137.
Keywords: Combination_quotes Data_quotes Ache_quotes Desire_quotes Answer_quotes Ensure_quotes Reasonable_quotes Extract_quotes Body_quotes

Gerald_Weinberg

Desire To Eliminate Programmers

“Over the years, executives have backed their desire to eliminate programmers with staggering funds.”
  • Source: Book Entitled: The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition). Edition: Silver anniversary. Written By: Gerald Weinberg. Published originally: 1971. Republished: 2011.
Keywords: Management_quotes Programmer_quotes Programming_quotes Desire_quotes Elimination_quotes Cost_quotes Year_quotes Executive_quotes Backed_quotes Stagger_quotes

E_O_Wilson

Passion Desire Truth

“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”
  • Source: p. 262 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998). The Unity of Knowledge (1998). Vintage Books. ISBN: 9780679450771. ISBN: 9780679768678.
Keywords: History_quotes Science_quotes Teach_quotes Passion_quotes Desire_quotes Same_quotes Truth_quotes
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