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Claude_Bernard

Theory Overthrow

“When we have put forward an idea or a theory in science, our object must not be to preserve it by seeking everything that may support it and setting aside everything that may weaken it. On the contrary, we ought to examine with the greatest care the facts which apparently would overthrow it.”

• 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 40. Available online at https://archive.org/details/b21270557 retrieved 2024.

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  • Claude_Bernard_quotes
  • Claude_Bernard_quotes/Theory_Overthrow

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Edward_Emil_David

Competitive Rush

"Computing has one property, unique I think, that seriously aggravates the uncertainties associated with software efforts. In computing, the research, development, and production phases are often telescoped into one process. In the competitive rush to make available the latest techniques, such as on-line consoles served by time-shared computers, we strive to take great forward leaps across gulfs of unknown width and depth."

• Source: Edward E. David 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 41.

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  • Edward_Emil_David_quotes
  • Edward_Emil_David_quotes/Competitive_Rush

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Keywords: Software_Engineering_quotes Computer_quotes Uncertainty_quotes Effort_quotes Research_quotes Development_quotes Production_quotes Telescope_quotes Process_quotes Competition_quotes Unknown_quotes Scope_quotes Requirements_quotes Property_quotes Unique_quotes Aggravate_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes Phase_quotes Technique_quotes Console_quotes Timeshare_quotes Strive_quotes Forward_quotes Leap_quotes Gulf_quotes Width_quotes Depth_quotes

Alexander_G_Fraser

Program Construction Sum

“One thing seems to be clear just now. It is that program construction is not always a simple progression in which each act of assembly represents a distinct forward step and that the final product can be described simply as the sum of many sub-assemblies.”

• Source: Alexander G. Fraser 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 10.

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  • Alexander_G_Fraser_quotes
  • Alexander_G_Fraser_quotes/Program_Construction_Sum

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Keywords: Clarity_quotes Program_quotes Programming_quotes Construction_quotes Simplicity_quotes Progress_quotes Assembly_quotes Step_quotes Product_quotes Complexity_quotes Sum_quotes Component_quotes Act_quotes Distinct_quotes Forward_quotes Final_quotes Describe_quotes

Steve_Jobs

Misfits

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

• Source: Steve Jobs in “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, published by Prabhat Prakashan in 2020. ISBN: 9789351869191.

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  • Steve_Jobs_quotes
  • Steve_Jobs_quotes/Misfits

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Keywords: Crazy_quotes Misfit_quotes Rebel_quotes Troublemaker_quotes Round_quotes Peg_quotes Square_quotes Hole_quotes See_quotes Different_quotes Fond_quotes Rule_quotes Respect_quotes Status_Quo_quotes Quote_quotes Disagree_quotes Glorify_quotes Vilify_quotes Ignore_quotes Change_quotes Human_quotes Race_quotes Forward_quotes Genius_quotes People_quotes Think_quotes World_quotes

John_Maynard_Keynes

Purpose and Immortality

“The ‘purposive’ man is always trying to secure a spurious and delusive immortality for his acts by pushing his interest in them forward into time. He does not love his cat, but his cat’s kittens; nor, in truth, the kittens, but only the kittens’ kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For him jam is not jam unless it is a case of jam tomorrow and never jam today.”

• 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.

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  • John_Maynard_Keynes_quotes
  • John_Maynard_Keynes_quotes/Purpose_and_Immortality

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