Human quotes
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Contents
- 1 David_Auerbach
- 2 Augustine of Hippo
- 3 Jim_Baggott
- 4 Robert_A_Baker
- 5 Francis_Bello
- 6 Ludwig_Bolztman
- 7 Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
- 8 Robert_N_Britcher
- 9 Fred_Brooks
- 10 Octavia_E_Butler
- 11 Francis_Chisholm
- 12 W_Edwards_Deming
- 13 Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra
- 14 Peter_Drucker
- 15 Arthur_Eddington
- 16 David_Epstein
- 17 Samuel_C_Florman
- 18 Henry_Ford
- 19 Gordon_Glegg
- 20 Kurt_Gödel
- 21 Yuval_Noah_Harari
- 22 Stephen_Hawking
- 23 Robert_Heinlein
- 24 Donald_Hoffman
- 25 Douglas_Hofstadter
- 26 Grace_Hopper
- 27 Sabine_Hossenfelder
- 28 Aldous_Huxley
- 29 Steve_Jobs
- 30 Bernardo_Kastrup
- 31 Johannes_Kepler
- 32 John_Maynard_Keynes
- 33 Abraham_Maslow
- 34 David_E_Nye
- 35 Pearl_and_Mackenzie
- 36 Roger_Penrose
- 37 Daniel_H_Pink
- 38 Steven_Pinker
- 39 Plato
- 40 Carl_Sagan
- 41 Herbert_Simon
- 42 Albert_Speer
- 43 Baruch_Spinoza
- 44 Hunter_S_Thompson
- 45 Shannon_Vallor
- 46 Gerald_Weinberg
- 47 Thornton_Wilder
- 48 E_O_Wilson
- 49 Ellis_Leon_Yochelson
- 50 Shoshana_Zuboff
- 51 Steven_S_Zumdahl
David_Auerbach
Inscrutable Humans
“Inscrutability appears to be a mark of the human.”
- Source: David Auerbach, in the article “Bitwise: A Life in Code” published in 2019 in Communications of the ACM, Volume 62, Issue 9 (September). DOI: 10.1145/3347864.
- Keywords: Inscrutability_quotes Appear_quotes Mark_quotes Human_quotes
Machine Models
“Even machine-generated models are beholden to the strictures placed on them by humans.”
- Source: David Auerbach, in the article “Bitwise: A Life in Code” published in 2019 in Communications of the ACM, Volume 62, Issue 9 (September). DOI: 10.1145/3347864.
- Keywords: Machine_quotes Generate_quotes Model_quotes Beholden_quotes Stricture_quotes Place_quotes Human_quotes Artificial_Intelligence_quotes
Model Ontologies
“It is the irony of the data age that computers, with little to no understanding of the models they are employing, are increasingly acting as primary arbiters of the ontologies employed by humans.”
- Source: David Auerbach, in the article “Bitwise: A Life in Code” published in 2019 in Communications of the ACM, Volume 62, Issue 9 (September). DOI: 10.1145/3347864.
Unsupervised Learning
“Unsupervised learning suggests that machine learning may increasingly be able to create its own feature distinctions, which would mitigate the anthropocentric biases of human-specified categories and features, at the cost of making such distinctions more opaque to humans.”
- Source: David Auerbach, in the article “Bitwise: A Life in Code” published in 2019 in Communications of the ACM, Volume 62, Issue 9 (September). DOI: 10.1145/3347864.
Synchronizing Interpretability
“The more tenable problem may be one of synchronizing interpretability between machine networks and humans, so that even though we each are black boxes, humans can still tune and correct machines — and vice versa.”
- Source: David Auerbach, in the article “Bitwise: A Life in Code” published in 2019 in Communications of the ACM, Volume 62, Issue 9 (September). DOI: 10.1145/3347864.
Augustine of Hippo
Human Error
“To err is human; to persist in error is diabolical.”
- Source: St. Augustine of Hippo (c. 400 CE). In “Humanum fuit errare, diabolicum est per animositatem in errore manere.” See Armand Benjamin Caillau, ed., Sermones de scripturis, in Sancti Aurelii Augustini Opera (Paris: Parent-Desbarres, 1838), 4:412.
- Keywords: Error_quotes Human_quotes Persist_quotes Diabolic_quotes
Jim_Baggott
The Reality Principle
“The Reality Principle. Reality is a metaphysical concept, and as such it is beyond the reach of science. Reality consists of things-in-themselves of which we can never hope to gain knowledge. Instead, we have to content ourselves with knowledge of empirical reality, of things-as-they-appear or things-as-they-are-measured. Nevertheless, scientific realists assume that reality (and its entities) exists objectively and independently of perception or measurement. They believe that reality is rational, predictable and accessible to human reason.”
- Source: Baggott, Jim. Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth (p. 8). Pegasus Books, New York, NY.
- Keywords: Reality_quotes Metaphysics_quotes Conception_quotes Science_quotes Knowledge_quotes Epistemology_quotes Empirical_quotes Measurement_quotes Objectivity_quotes Independent_quotes Perception_quotes Belief_quotes Rational_quotes Reason_quotes Prediction_quotes Accessibility_quotes Human_quotes Principle_quotes
The Veracity Principle
“The Veracity Principle. It is not possible to verify a scientific theory such that it provides absolute certainty for all time. A theory is instead accepted (or even tolerated), on the basis of its ability to survive the tests and meet additional criteria of simplicity, efficacy, utility, explanatory power and less rational, innately human measures such as beauty. Over time the theory becomes familiar and is accepted as ‘true’ or, at least, as possessing a high truth-likeness or verisimilitude. The scientists’ confidence or degree of belief in the theory grows. It is eventually absorbed into the common body of knowledge which forms the current ‘authorized’ version of empirical reality.”
- Source: Baggott, Jim. Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth (p. 22). Pegasus Books. New York, NY.
- Keywords: Veracity_quotes Verification_quotes Principle_quotes Science_quotes Theory_quotes Certainty_quotes Acceptance_quotes Tolerance_quotes Ability_quotes Survival_quotes Simplicity_quotes Efficacy_quotes Utility_quotes Explanation_quotes Power_quotes Rational_quotes Human_quotes Measurement_quotes Beauty_quotes Time_quotes Truth_quotes Probability_quotes Likelihood_quotes Verisimilitude_quotes Confidence_quotes Belief_quotes Knowledge_quotes Authority_quotes Empirical_quotes Reality_quotes
Robert_A_Baker
Science Has Humor
“Science, like any human enterprise, does have its humorous aspects.”
- Source: Written by Robert A. Baker in the introduction to the book entitled “A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age”, edited by Robert A. Baker, published in 1963 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0138526087.
- Keywords: Science_quotes Human_quotes Enterprise_quotes Humor_quotes Aspect_quotes
Francis_Bello
Facts Alone
“Facts alone, no matter how numerous or verifiable, do not automatically arrange themselves into an intelligible, or truthful, picture of the world. It is the task of the human mind to invent a theoretical framework to account for them.”
- Source: Francis Bello, In Francis Bello, Lawrence Lessing and George A.W. Boehm, Great American Scientists (1960, 1961), 116.
Ludwig_Bolztman
Awkward Mind
“How awkward is the human mind in divining the nature of things, when forsaken by the analogy of what we see and touch directly.”
- Source: Ludwig Bolztman in the article ‘Certain Questions of the Theory of Gasses’, published in Nature, Volume 51, Number 1322, 1895-02-28, page 414.
Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
Stupidity
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”
- Source: From the paper “An Account at the Turn of the Year 1942-1943” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, contained within the book “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Volume 8: Letters and Papers from Prison” edited by John W. Gruchy, et al. Published in 2009 by Fortress Press.
- Keywords: Stupid_quotes Danger_quotes Malice_quotes Enemy_quotes Good_quotes Protest_quotes Evil_quotes Expose_quotes Prevent_quotes Force_quotes Carry_quotes Germ_quotes Subversion_quotes Human_quotes Being_quotes Sense_quotes Unease_quotes Against_quotes Defenseless_quotes Accomplish_quotes Reason_quotes Fall_quotes Deaf_quotes Ear_quotes Fact_quotes Contradict_quotes Prejudgment_quotes Simple_quotes Believe_quotes Moment_quotes Person_quotes Critical_quotes Irrefutable_quotes Push_quotes Inconsequential_quotes Incidental_quotes Contrast_quotes Utterly_quotes Self_quotes Satisfy_quotes Easy_quotes Irritate_quotes Attack_quotes Caution_quotes Deal_quotes Persuade_quotes Senseless_quotes
Stupidity Defect
“If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature. This much is certain, that it is in essence not an intellectual defect but a human one. There are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid.”
- Source: From the paper “An Account at the Turn of the Year 1942-1943” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, contained within the book “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Volume 8: Letters and Papers from Prison” edited by John W. Gruchy, et al. Published in 2009 by Fortress Press.
Contempt for Humanity
“The danger of allowing ourselves to be driven to contempt for humanity is very real... Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us.”
- Source: From the paper “An Account at the Turn of the Year 1942-1943” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, contained within the book “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Volume 8: Letters and Papers from Prison” edited by John W. Gruchy, et al. Published in 2009 by Fortress Press.
Robert_N_Britcher
Human Element
“The real scoop on programming and software is the human element. I didn't know Alan Turing or John von Neuman or the other inventors, but I've known plenty of programmers. We are just like everyone, part this, part that. Except we have to deal with enormous complexity, which springs upon us only after we are too far into what started out to be kind of fun - coding an algorithm and watching it run on a machine. Then it's too late and it all becomes work, very stressful work.”
- Source: Britcher, Robert N. (1999). The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43323-0. Page 28.
- Keywords: Programming_quotes Software_quotes Humanity_quotes Programmer_quotes Complexity_quotes Algorithm_quotes Machine_quotes Work_quotes Stress_quotes Real_quotes Scoop_quotes Element_quotes Human_quotes Turing(topic)_quotes Neuman(topic)_quotes Inventor_quotes Plenty_quotes Part_quotes Deal_quotes Enormous_quotes Spring_quotes Far_quotes Start_quotes Fun_quotes Coding_quotes Watch_quotes Run_quotes Late_quotes
Fred_Brooks
Brooks' Law
“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
- Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 2, page 25. Known as Brooks' Law.
Software Complexity
“Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity, forced without rhyme or reason by the many human institutions and systems to which his interfaces must conform. These differ from interface to interface, and from time to time, not because of necessity but only because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.”
- Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 16, page 184.
- Keywords: Complexity_quotes Software_quotes Nature_quotes Deity_quotes Faith_quotes System_quotes Interface_quotes Human_Limitations_quotes Design_quotes Software_Design_quotes Einstein(topic)_quotes Repeat_quotes Argue_quotes Simplify_quotes Explanation_quotes God_quotes Capricious_quotes Arbitrary_quotes Force_quotes Rhyme_quotes Reason_quotes Human_quotes Limit_quotes Institution_quotes Conform_quotes Different_quotes Time_quotes Necessary_quotes People_quotes
People Central
“The central question of how to improve the software art centers, as it always has, on people.”
- Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (1995). The Mythical Man-Month - Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) | 1975/1995 (Anniv.). Boston. MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201835959. Chapter 16, page 202.
AI and Design
“The initial hope, long delayed in realization and I think impossible, was that AI techniques could not only take over much of the drudgery of routine design but even produce brilliant designs lying outside the domains usually explored by humans.”
- Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (2010). The Design of Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 978-0-201-36298-5. Preface.
Octavia_E_Butler
Different Ones
“Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.”
- Source: Written by Octavia E. Butler in her story entitled “Adulthood Rites”. Part II. Chapter 4. Written 1988. Published in the compilation book entitled “Lilith's Brood”. Compiled by Octavia E. Butler. Published by Grand Central Publishing, New York, NY in 1989. ISBN-10: 0-446-67610-1.
- Keywords: Human_quotes Persecution_quotes Different_quotes Definition_quotes Status_quotes
Francis_Chisholm
Chisholm's 1st Law of Human Interaction
“Chisholm's 1st Law of Human Interaction. If anything can go wrong, it will.
Corollary: If anything just can’t go wrong, it will anyway.”
- 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 Anything_quotes Go_quotes Wrong_quotes Anyway_quotes
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.
Chisholm's 3rd Law of Human Interaction
“Chisholm's 3rd Law of Human Interaction. Purposes, as understood by the purposer, will be judged otherwise by others.
Corollary 1: If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
Corollary 2: If you do something which you are sure will meet with everybody’s approval, somebody won’t like it.
Corollary 3: Procedures devised to implement the purpose won’t quite work.
Corollary 4: No matter how long or how many times you explain, no one is listening.”
- 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 Purpose_quotes Understood_quotes Judge_quotes Explain_quotes Clear_quotes Nobody_quotes Misunderstand_quotes Do_quotes Meet_quotes Everybody_quotes Approve_quotes Somebody_quotes Like_quotes Procedure_quotes Devise_quotes Implement_quotes Work_quotes Matter_quotes Long_quotes Time_quotes Listen_quotes
W_Edwards_Deming
Blame Process not People
"Blame the process, not the people."
- Source: Deming Seminar, Alexandria, Virginia, 19-22 January 1992
- Keywords: Blame_quotes Process_quotes Human_quotes People_quotes
People Manager
"A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people."
- Source: W. Edwards Deming. The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993).
- Keywords: Management_quotes Human_quotes Differences_quotes Understanding_quotes Rank_quotes Average_quotes People_quotes
Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra
Humble Programmers
"We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers."
- Source: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in an article entitled The Humble Programmer. Written by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Published 1972 in Communications of the ACM, volume 15, number 10. DOI: 10.1145/355604.361591.
Peter_Drucker
Weaknesses and Strengths
"A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths."
- Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 157.
- Keywords: Man_quotes Humanity_quotes People_quotes Appoint_quotes Manager_quotes Position_quotes Vision_quotes Human_quotes Weakness_quotes Strength_quotes
Ordering Others About
“It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.”
- Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 284.
- Keywords: Follow_quotes Separation_quotes Plan_quotes Do_quotes Analysis_quotes Work_quotes Differences_quotes Human_quotes People_quotes Industry_quotes World_quotes Divide_quotes Class_quotes Few_quotes Decision_quotes Design_quotes Set_quotes Pace_quotes Rhythm_quotes Motion_quotes Order_quotes Told_quotes
Education
“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.”
- Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 121.
Arthur_Eddington
Brain and Mind
“Take the living human brain endowed with mind and thought. Thought it is one of the indisputable facts of the world. I know that I think, with a certainty which I cannot attribute to any of my physical knowledge of the world. More hypothetically, but on fairly plausible evidence, I am convinced that you have minds which think. Here then is a world fact to be investigated. The physicist brings his tools and commences systematic exploration. All that he discovers is a collection of atoms and electrons and fields of force arranged in space and time, apparently similar to those found in inorganic objects. He may trace other physical characteristics, energy, temperature, entropy. None of these is identical with thought. He might set down thought as an illusion ⎯ some perverse interpretation of the interplay of the physical entities that he has found. Or if he sees the folly of calling the most undoubted element of our experience an illusion, he will have to face the tremendous question, How can this collection of ordinary atoms be a thinking machine?”
- Source: Eddington, A. (1932). The Nature of the Physical World (Cheap). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://henry.pha.jhu.edu
/Eddington.2008.pdf. Chapter VII. page 130.
- Keywords: Brain_quotes Mind_quotes Thinking_quotes Fact_quotes Indisputable_quotes World_quotes Knowledge_quotes Certainty_quotes Hypothesis_quotes Plausible_quotes Evidence_quotes Physics_quotes Tool_quotes Systematic_quotes Exploration_quotes Discovery_quotes Atom_quotes Electron_quotes Field_quotes Space_quotes Time_quotes Energy_quotes Physical_quotes Materialism_quotes Temperature_quotes Entropy_quotes Illusion_quotes Perversity_quotes Interpretation_quotes Interplay_quotes Folly_quotes Experience_quotes Question_quotes Human_quotes Think_quotes Find_quotes Entity_quotes Undoubted_quotes Element_quotes Machine_quotes
David_Epstein
Unkind Domains
“When narrow specialization is combined with an unkind domain, the human tendency to rely on experience of familiar patterns can backfire horribly.”
- Source: David Epstein in the book “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”. Published 2019 by Riverhead Books. Chapter 1, page 32. ISBN 978-0735214484.
Ill-Defined Problems
“Human intuition, it appears, is not very well engineered to make use of the best tools when faced with what the researchers called ‘ill-defined problems.’”
- Source: David Epstein in the book “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”. Published 2019 by Riverhead Books. Chapter 5, page 106. ISBN 978-0735214484.
Knowledge Bridge
“Work that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowledge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be a smash hit in the library of human knowledge.”
- Source: David Epstein in the book “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”. Published 2019 by Riverhead Books. Chapter 12, page 282. ISBN 978-0735214484.
Samuel_C_Florman
Drudgery
“Once the common man was released from drudgery, the engineers reasoned, he would inevitably become educated, cultured and ennobled, and this improvement in the race would also be to the credit of the engineering profession. Improved human beings, of course, would have to be happier human beings.”
- 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. Chapter 1, page 6.
Mistakes
“Human error, lack of imagination, and blind ignorance. The practice of engineering is in large measure a continuing struggle to avoid making mistakes for these reasons.”
- 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. Chapter 3, page 33.
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.
- See Also:
- 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
Gordon_Glegg
Engineers and Designers Are Human
“Throughout this book we have talked about 'designers' and 'engineers' and sought, by analysing their work, to find general and helpful maxims. But there is a danger in doing this, for we may forget that a 'designer' or 'engineer' is first and foremost a human being. A human being who designs or engineers has, in addition, a wide range of complicated and interacting emotions. It is easy to become emotionally involved in a new invention and so resent criticism of it even when that criticism, if heeded, would turn a failure into a success. Confidence may be blinded by conceit or undermined by an inferiority complex. History has shown that many new inventions were not inventions at all; they were re-inventions. The idea was not new but the determination to press through with it was. Character is the foundation of ability. Develop as large a safety margin as you can against such things as laziness, impatience, prejudice and arrogance and all the other human failings that inhibit constructive achievement in all spheres, especially that of creative engineering design.”
- Source: Glegg, G. L. (1969). The Design of Design. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-511-79996-9. Chapter 6, page 92.
- Keywords: Design_quotes Engineering_quotes Work_quotes Maxim_quotes Danger_quotes Forget_quotes Humanity_quotes Complexity_quotes Emotion_quotes Invention_quotes Criticism_quotes Resentment_quotes Failure_quotes Success_quotes Confidence_quotes Conceit_quotes Inferior_quotes History_quotes Idea_quotes Determination_quotes Character_quotes Ability_quotes Safe_quotes Lazy_quotes Impatience_quotes Prejudice_quotes Arrogance_quotes Achievement_quotes Sphere_quotes Creativity_quotes Analyze_quotes Human_quotes Interacting_quotes Heed_quotes Blind_quotes Reinvention_quotes Inhibit_quotes Constructive_quotes
Kurt_Gödel
Mind Machine
“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.”
- Source: The words of Kurt Gödel as reported in the book ‘Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic’ (1979) by Robert Goldblatt, page 13.
- Keywords: Mathematics_quotes Big_quotes Human_quotes Mind_quotes More_quotes Machine_quotes
Yuval_Noah_Harari
Algorithm Interest
“Algorithms are now playing this important role of editors. But the question which interests the algorithms and of human bosses is not what is the truth but what will get user engagement.”
- Source: Yuval Noah Harari speaking in a YouTube interview with MSNBC television news anchor Ari Melber discussion his book “Nexus”. Published 2024-09-12 on YouTube entitled “MAGA propaganda decoded: Obama’s fave historian shreds Trump tricks with groundbreaking scholarship”, channel “MSNBC”, at 26:45. Online at <https://youtu.be/toF5PIClNZ4?si=5ogXQFnsVW1yhv2R>, retrieved 2024.
- Keywords: Algorithm_quotes Role_quotes Editor_quotes Question_quotes Interest_quotes Human_quotes Boss_quotes Truth_quotes User_quotes Engagement_quotes
Origins of Order
“Being truthful about the origins of our social order makes it easier to make changes in it... But such truthfulness comes at a price. Acknowledging the human origins of the social order makes it harder to persuade everyone to agree on it.”
- 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 2 page 36. ISBN 978-0593734247.
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
Infallible Technology
“Holy books like the Bible and the Quran are a technology to bypass human fallibility.”
- 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 4 page 73. ISBN 978-0593734247.
- Keywords: Holy_quotes Book_quotes Bible_quotes Quran_quotes Technology_quotes Bypass_quotes Human_quotes Fallibility_quotes Infallibility_quotes
Stephen_Hawking
Artificial Intelligence
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. We cannot quite know what will happen if a machine exceeds our own intelligence, so we can't know if we'll be infinitely helped by it, or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it.”
- Source: Stephen Hawking in a BBC television interview on 2014-12-02. Video available online at https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 retrieved 2024-05-25.
- Keywords: Development_quotes Full_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes End_quotes Human_quotes Race_quotes Humanity_quotes Know_quotes Happen_quotes Exceed_quotes Machine_quotes Infinite_quotes Help_quotes Ignore_quotes Sideline_quotes Conceive_quotes Destroy_quotes Singularity_quotes
Star Trek
“Science fiction like Star Trek is not only good fun but it also serves a serious purpose, that of expanding the human imagination.”
- Source: Stephen Hawking quoted in the book “The Physics of Star Trek” written by Lawrence M. Krauss. Forward, page xi.
Robert_Heinlein
Specialization
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”.
- Source: Written by Robert A. Heinlein in the book “Time Enough for Love”, published in 1973 by Putnam's Sons, ISBN: 0-399-11151-4. ISBN: 9781101503072 (ebook). Page 256 (Kindle edition).
- Keywords: Human_quotes Being_quotes Diaper_quotes Plan_quotes Invasion_quotes Butcher_quotes Hog_quotes Conn_quotes Ship_quotes Design_quotes Building_quotes Write_quotes Sonnet_quotes Balance_quotes Account_quotes Build_quotes Wall_quotes Bone_quotes Comfort_quotes Dying_quotes Take_quotes Order_quotes Give_quotes Cooperate_quotes Act_quotes Solve_quotes Equation_quotes Analyze_quotes Problem_quotes Pitch_quotes Manure_quotes Program_quotes Computer_quotes Cook_quotes Taste_quotes Meal_quotes Fight_quotes Efficient_quotes Die_quotes Gallant_quotes Specialization_quotes Insect_quotes Generalization_quotes
Human Stupidity
“One of the hardest things to believe is the abysmal depth of human stupidity.”
- Source: Written by Robert A. Heinlein in the magazine series “Gulf” published in 1949-11 and 1949-12 issues of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Page 59. Character: Dr. Baldwin. Online at https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/AST.htm retrieved 2024-05-05.
- Keywords: Human_quotes Hard_quotes Believe_quotes Abysmal_quotes Depth_quotes Stupid_quotes
Donald_Hoffman
AI Computation
“If we look at an LLM [Large Language Model] or a future AI [Artificial Intelligence], it's going to be some kind of computational system. And computational systems have their limits. We have Gödel who said that at a minimum. I'm betting that you and I are avatars of an infinite intelligence that's the true source of all creativity and that Einstein or any scientist taps into when they come up with their truly original ideas. The first step would be to say, if it's just a computational bias, then it doesn't transcend. It doesn't get to this true originality. But then there's a deeper level... These are just avatars in a particular headset. So why can't we create a new avatar in our headset that looks like a computer that is actually an avatar of the deep intelligence? If we are only going to stick with the computational thing... But somehow the [human] avatar is a portal into the infinite consciousness... And we know one way of creating new portals into this infinite consciousness, and that is having kids. So that is one technology that allows us to do that. Once we understand spacetime as a headset, and we understand the headset and at least some layers of its relationship to the infinite reality, that's the source of true insight and true originality and creativity, could we figure out new ways to open up genuine new portals, and might that look like AI… The jury is out.”
- Source: Donald Hoffman, in the YouTube video entitled “Donald Hoffman's New Approach To Consciousness” channel “Dr Brian Keating”. Online at <https://youtu.be/mU_WBela71Y?si=fNfLLsOsUDRDC1XD> posted 2024-08, retrieved 2024-08. In video at 1:14:40.
- Keywords: Look_quotes LLM_quotes Large_quotes Language_quotes Model_quotes Future_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Computation_quotes System_quotes Limit_quotes Gödel(topic)_quotes Minimum_quotes Bet_quotes Avatar_quotes Infinite_quotes True_quotes Source_quotes Creativity_quotes Einstein(topic)_quotes Scientist_quotes Tap_quotes Original_quotes Idea_quotes Bias_quotes Transcend_quotes Deep_quotes Level_quotes Particular_quotes Headset_quotes Create_quotes New_quotes Computer_quotes Actual_quotes Human_quotes Portal_quotes Consciousness_quotes Kid_quotes Technology_quotes Allow_quotes Understand_quotes Spacetime_quotes Relationship_quotes Reality_quotes Figure_quotes Way_quotes Open_quotes Genuine_quotes Jury_quotes
Demystify Consciousness
“Cats can't do calculus and monkeys can't do quantum theory, so why assume that Homo sapiens can demystify consciousness?”
- Source: Donald Hoffman in his book “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes”. Published by W. W. Norton, New York, NY, in 2019. ISBN 978-0393254693. Chapter 1, page 33.
Douglas_Hofstadter
Elusive Truth
“Truth is too elusive for any human or any collection of humans ever to attain fully.”
- Source: Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Written by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Basic Books, New York, NY. ISBN 13: 978-046502656-2. ISBN 10: 046502656-7. Chapter 20. Page 695.
- Keywords: Truth_quotes Elusive_quotes Human_quotes Collection_quotes Attain_quotes Full_quotes
Artificial Intelligence Art Problems
“Artificial Intelligence, when it reaches the level of human intelligence — or even if it surpasses it — will still be plagued by the problems of art, beauty, and simplicity, and will run up against these things constantly in its own search for knowledge and understanding.”
- Source: Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Written by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Basic Books, New York, NY. ISBN 13: 978-046502656-2. ISBN 10: 046502656-7. Chapter 20. Page 695.
- Keywords: Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Reach_quotes Level_quotes Human_quotes Surpass_quotes Plague_quotes Problem_quotes Art_quotes Beauty_quotes Simplicity_quotes Run_quotes Up_quotes Against_quotes Constant_quotes Search_quotes Knowledge_quotes Understanding_quotes Artificial_Intelligence_quotes
Grace_Hopper
Allergic To Change
“Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We've always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”
- Source: Grace Hopper as quoted in "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper" by Philip Schieber in OCLC Newsletter, No. 167 (March/April 1987).
Information Flood
“We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.”
- Source: Grace Hopper as quoted in "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper" by Philip Schieber in OCLC Newsletter, No. 167 (March/April 1987).
Sabine_Hossenfelder
Brain Atoms
“The average human brain, for example, contains about a thousand trillion trillion atoms. [About 1027]. Even with today’s most powerful supercomputers, no one can calculate just how all these atoms interact to create conscious thought.”
- Source: Hossenfelder, Sabine. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (p. 83). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Aldous_Huxley
Information Defeats Its Own Object
“In a certain sense our passion for information defeats its own object, which is increased knowledge of the world and other human beings. We are provided with a vastly greater supply of facts than our ancestors ever had an opportunity of considering. And yet our knowledge of other peoples is probably less thorough and intimate than theirs.”
- ASource: ldous Huxley (1936). An essay entitled Words and Behavior within the book The Olive Tree and Other Essays, published by Harper and Brothers, ASIN: B08VNTBLY4.
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.
- See Also:
- 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
Bernardo_Kastrup
Cosmic Mind
“He [Jung] is extrapolating the natural basis for cognitive associations in the psyche to a universal basis for the organization of all events in nature. He seems to regard the whole universe as a supraordinate cosmic mind — a ‘greater and more comprehensive consciousness’ — operating on the principle of association by similarity, just as the human psyche does.”
- Source: From “Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe”. Written by Bernardo Kastrup. Published by IFF Books, Washington DC. Kindle Edition. Page 69-70. Chapter 4.
- Keywords: Extrapolate_quotes Natural_quotes Basis_quotes Cognitive_quotes Association_quotes Psyche_quotes Universal_quotes Organization_quotes Event_quotes Universe_quotes Supraordinate_quotes Cosmic_quotes Mind_quotes Great_quotes Comprehensive_quotes Consciousness_quotes Operate_quotes Principle_quotes Similarity_quotes Human_quotes Jung(topic)_quotes
Johannes_Kepler
Physical Causes
“Some physical causes are recognized by all; others, by only very few people; indeed, many things exist naturally, but from causes hitherto known to no man. And of the causes, which we know, there are some whose kind and nature we all usually understand, and others whose kind or indirect cause are understood by very few people, or by nobody.”
- Source: Johannes Kepler in “Fundamentis. Astrologiae Certioribus - Thesis IV”.
John_Maynard_Keynes
Technological Unemployment
“In our own lifetimes... we may be able to perform all the operations of agriculture, mining, and manufacture with a quarter of the human effort to which we have been accustomed. For the moment the very rapidity of these changes is hurting us and bringing difficult problems to solve... We are being afflicted with... technological unemployment. This means unemployment due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour. But this is only a temporary phase of maladjustment... In the long run... mankind is solving its economic problem. I would predict that the standard of life in progressive countries one hundred years hence will be between four and eight times as high as it is 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.
- Keywords: Lifetime_quotes Perform_quotes Ability_quotes Operation_quotes Agriculture_quotes Mining_quotes Manufacturing_quotes Quarter_quotes Human_quotes Effort_quotes Rapid_quotes Change_quotes Hurt_quotes Bring_quotes Difficult_quotes Problem_quotes Solve_quotes Afflict_quotes Technology_quotes Unemployment_quotes Employment_quotes Discover_quotes Means_quotes Economize_quotes Labor_quotes Outrun_quotes Pace_quotes Find_quotes Use_quotes Temporary_quotes Phase_quotes Maladjustment_quotes Adjustment_quotes Long_quotes Run_quotes Mankind_quotes Humanity_quotes Economic_quotes Prediction_quotes Standard_quotes Life_quotes Living_quotes Progressive_quotes Country_quotes Hundred_quotes Year_quotes High_quotes Today_quotes
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
Traditional Purpose
“Thus, we have been expressly evolved by nature — with all our impulses and deepest instincts — for the purpose of solving the economic problem. If the economic problem is solved, mankind will be deprived of its traditional purpose. Will this be a benefit? If one believes at all in the real values of life, the prospect at least opens up the possibility of benefit. Yet I think with dread of the readjustment of the habits and instincts of the ordinary man, bred into him for countless generations, which he may be asked to discard within a few decades.”
- 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: Express_quotes Evolve_quotes Nature_quotes Impulse_quotes Deep_quotes Instinct_quotes Purpose_quotes Solve_quotes Economic_quotes Problem_quotes Mankind_quotes Humanity_quotes Deprive_quotes Traditional_quotes Benefit_quotes Believe_quotes Real_quotes Value_quotes Life_quotes Prospect_quotes Open_quotes Up_quotes Possibility_quotes Think_quotes Dread_quotes Readjustment_quotes Adjustment_quotes Habit_quotes Ordinary_quotes Man_quotes Human_quotes Bred_quotes Countless_quotes Generation_quotes Ask_quotes Discard_quotes Few_quotes Decade_quotes
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.
- Keywords: Purpose_quotes Man_quotes Try_quotes Secure_quotes Spurious_quotes Delusion_quotes Immortal_quotes Act_quotes Push_quotes Interest_quotes Forward_quotes Time_quotes Love_quotes Cat_quotes Kitten_quotes Truth_quotes Forever_quotes End_quotes Jam_quotes Case_quotes Tomorrow_quotes Today_quotes Human_quotes
Abraham_Maslow
Selfhood
“...it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being... there is an active will towards health, an impulse towards growth, or toward the actualization of human potentialities. But at once we are confronted with the saddening realization that so few people make it. Only a small proportion of the human population get to the point of identity, or of selfhood, full humanness, self-actualization.”
- Source: Abraham H. Maslow, ‘Farther Reaches of Human Nature’ (1971), ISBN 0140194703.
- Keywords: Reason_quotes Assumption_quotes Free_Will_quotes Health_quotes Growth_quotes Actualization_quotes Potential_quotes Humanity_quotes Confront_quotes Sad_quotes Realization_quotes People_quotes Population_quotes Identity_quotes Selfhood_quotes Self-Actualization_quotes Human_quotes Active_quotes Will_quotes Impulse_quotes Proportion_quotes
David_E_Nye
Unanticipated Consequences
“The combined choices of inventors, entrepreneurs, and consumers create unanticipated cultural consequences. Because no single individual or institution wills certain changes, they are often mistaken for attributes of the machine itself... Machines are human-directed agents of cultural change.”
- Source: A book. Written by David E. Nye. Entitled 'Narratives and Spaces'. Published in 1997 by Univerity of Exeter Press, Exeter, UK. Hardback ISBN 0-85989-555-6. Paperback ISBN 0-85989-556-4. Introduction, pages 2-3.
Unable To Control
“Human beings prove unable to control the technologies they unleash.”
- Source: A book. Written by David E. Nye. Entitled 'Narratives and Spaces'. Published in 1997 by Univerity of Exeter Press, Exeter, UK. Hardback ISBN 0-85989-555-6. Paperback ISBN 0-85989-556-4. Chapter 11, page 188.
- Keywords: Human_quotes Being_quotes Prove_quotes Unable_quotes Control_quotes Technology_quotes Unleash_quotes
Pearl_and_Mackenzie
Strong AI
“The successes of deep learning have been truly remarkable... Nevertheless, deep learning has succeeded primarily by showing that certain questions or tasks we thought were difficult are in fact not. It has not addressed the truly difficult questions that continue to prevent us from achieving humanlike AI. As a result the public believes that ‘strong AI,’ machines that think like humans, is just around the corner or maybe even here already. In reality, nothing could be farther from the truth.”
- Source: Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie in “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect”. Published by Basic Books of New York, NY in 2018. Chapter 1, page 30. ISBN 978-0465097616 (ebook).
- Keywords: Success_quotes Deep_quotes Learning_quotes Remarkable_quotes Primary_quotes Show_quotes Question_quotes Certain_quotes Task_quotes Thought_quotes Difficult_quotes Fact_quotes Address_quotes Prevent_quotes Achieve_quotes Humanlike_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Result_quotes Public_quotes Believe_quotes Strong_quotes Machine_quotes Think_quotes Human_quotes Around_quotes Corner_quotes Here_quotes Already_quotes Reality_quotes Nothing_quotes Farther_quotes Truth_quotes
Super Evolutionary Speedup
“Over millions of years, eagles and owls have evolved truly amazing eyesight — yet they’ve never devised eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes, or night-vision goggles. Humans have produced these miracles in a matter of centuries. I call this phenomenon the ‘super-evolutionary speedup.’”
- Source: Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie in “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect”. Published by Basic Books of New York, NY in 2018. Chapter 1, page 25. ISBN 978-0465097616 (ebook).
- Keywords: Million_quotes Year_quotes Eagle_quotes Owl_quotes Evolve_quotes Eyesight_quotes Eyeglass_quotes Microscope_quotes Telescope_quotes Night_quotes Vision_quotes Goggle_quotes Human_quotes Produce_quotes Miracle_quotes Century_quotes Phenomenon_quotes Super_quotes Evolution_quotes Speedup_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.”
- Source: Written by Roger Penrose in the preface to the book “What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches” by Erwin Schrödinger. 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.
Daniel_H_Pink
Motivation 1.0
“In our very early days — I mean very early days, say, fifty thousand years ago — the underlying assumption about human behavior was simple and true. We were trying to survive. From roaming the Savannah to gather food to scrambling for the bushes when a saber-toothed tiger approached, that drive guided most of our behavior. Call this early operating system Motivation 1.0.”
- Source: Daniel H. Pink (2009). Drive. New York, NY: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781101524381. Chapter 1.
- Keywords: Motivation_quotes Early_quotes Day_quotes Year_quotes Underlie_quotes Assumption_quotes Human_quotes Behavior_quotes Simplicity_quotes True_quotes Try_quotes Survival_quotes Roam_quotes Savannah_quotes Gather_quotes Food_quotes Scramble_quotes Bush_quotes Saber-Tooth_quotes Tiger_quotes Approach_quotes Drive_quotes Guide_quotes Operating_System_quotes Prehistoric_quotes
Steven_Pinker
Mind and Soul
“The traditional explanation of intelligence is that human flesh is suffused with a non-material entity, the soul, usually envisioned as some kind of ghost or spirit. But the theory faces an insurmountable problem: How does the spook interact with solid matter? How does an ethereal nothing respond to flashes, pokes, and beeps and get arms and legs to move? Another problem is the overwhelming evidence that the mind is the activity of the brain.”
- Source: Steven Pinker (1997). How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06973-0; eISBN 978-0-393-06973-0. Chapter 2 The search for Intelligent Life in the Universe.
- Keywords: Tradition_quotes Explanation_quotes Intelligence_quotes Human_quotes Flesh_quotes Suffuse_quotes Non-Material_quotes Material_quotes Entity_quotes Envision_quotes Kind_quotes Ghost_quotes Spirit_quotes Theory_quotes Insurmountable_quotes Problem_quotes Spook_quotes Interaction_quotes Solid_quotes Matter_quotes Ethereal_quotes Nothing_quotes Respond_quotes Flash_quotes Poke_quotes Beep_quotes Arm_quotes Leg_quotes Movement_quotes Overwhelm_quotes Evidence_quotes Mind_quotes Activity_quotes Brain_quotes Soul_quotes
Version of the Truth
“Our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth... Conflicts of interest are inherent to the human condition, and we are apt to want our version of the truth, rather than the truth itself, to prevail.”
- Source: Steven Pinker (1997). How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06973-0; eISBN 978-0-393-06973-0. Chapter 5 Section: Ecological Intelligence.
Plato
Cave
“Compare the effect of education and of the lack of it on... human beings [prisoners] living in an underground, cave like dwelling... They've been there since childhood, fixed in the same place, with their necks and legs fettered, able to see only in front of them... Light is provided by a fire... A low wall has been built, like the screen in front of puppeteers... there are people [puppeteers] along the wall, carrying all kinds of artifacts that project... These prisoners see... [only] the shadows that the fire casts on the wall... Then the prisoners would in every way believe that the truth is nothing other than the shadows of those artifacts.”
- Source: Plato, in Republic, originally written circa 375 BCE. Translated by G.M.A. Grube. Published by Hackett Publishing in 1992. ISBN:978-1603846462. Book VII. Page 137.
- See Also:
- Keywords: Compare_quotes Effect_quotes Education_quotes Human_quotes Cave_quotes Childhood_quotes Neck_quotes Leg_quotes Fetter_quotes See_quotes Able_quotes Front_quotes Light_quotes Fire_quotes Wall_quotes Screen_quotes Puppeteer_quotes Artifact_quotes Shadow_quotes Cast_quotes Prisoner_quotes Believe_quotes Truth_quotes
Carl_Sagan
Science Thinking
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of the human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we are up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along. It is a thing that Jefferson laid great stress on. It wasn't enough he said to enshrine some rights in a constitution or bill of rights. The people had to be educated and they have to practice their skepticism and education. Otherwise we don't run the government. The government runs us.”
- Source: Carl Sagen speaking in an video entitled 'CARL SAGEN - A Way of Thinking' posted on YouTube at https://youtu.be/J1cNaFG1VII , at 00:01:25 in video. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
- Keywords: Science_quotes Body_quotes Knowledge_quotes Thinking_quotes Truth_quotes Skeptical_quotes Interrogate_quotes Understanding_quotes Human_quotes Fallibility_quotes Question_quotes Tell_quotes Authority_quotes Grab_quotes Charlatan_quotes Political_quotes Religion_quotes Amble_quotes Jefferson_quotes Lay_quotes Stress_quotes Great_quotes Enshrine_quotes Rights_quotes Constitution_quotes Bill_quotes People_quotes Education_quotes Practice_quotes Run_quotes Government_quotes Way_quotes
Herbert_Simon
Human Limitations
“What a person cannot do he or she will not do, no matter how strong the urge to do it.”
- Source: Simon, H. A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial (Third Edition). Computers & Mathematics with Applications (3rd ed., Vol. 33). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 9780585360102. Retrieved 2018-08-23 from https://monoskop.org/images/9/9c/Simon_Herbert_A_The_Sciences_of_the_Artificial_3rd_ed.pdf. Chapter 2, page 28.
- Keywords: Human_quotes Person_quotes Do_quotes Strength_quotes Urge_quotes Capability_quotes
Organization and Market Economy
“The economic units in capitalist societies are mostly business firms, which are themselves hierarchic organizations, some of enormous size, that make almost negligible use of markets in their internal functioning. Roughly eighty percent of the human economic activity in the American economy, usually regarded as almost the epitome of a "market" economy, takes place in the internal environments of business and other organizations and not in the external, between-organization environments of markets. To avoid misunderstanding, it would be appropriate to call such a society an organization-&-market economy; for in order to give an account of it we have to pay as much attention to organizations as to markets.”
- Source: Simon, H. A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial (Third Edition). Computers & Mathematics with Applications (3rd ed., Vol. 33). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 9780585360102. Retrieved 2018-08-23 from https://monoskop.org/images/9/9c/Simon_Herbert_A_The_Sciences_of_the_Artificial_3rd_ed.pdf. Chapter 2, page 31.
- Keywords: Economics_quotes Unit_quotes Capitalism_quotes Society_quotes Business_quotes Firm_quotes Hierarchy_quotes Organization_quotes Enormous_quotes Size_quotes Negligible_quotes Market_quotes Internal_quotes Function_quotes Human_quotes America_quotes Economy_quotes Epitome_quotes Environment_quotes External_quotes Understanding_quotes Appropriate_quotes Account_quotes Pay_quotes Attention_quotes
Bounded Rationality
“In a world of bounded rationality there are several ways to magnify the computing capabilities of individual human beings and enhance the possibilities of their collective survival and prosperity. With the combined use of markets and administrative hierarchies, the human species has enormously increased its capabilities for specialization and division of work.”
- Source: Simon, H. A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial (Third Edition). Computers & Mathematics with Applications (3rd ed., Vol. 33). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 9780585360102. Retrieved 2018-08-23 from https://monoskop.org/images/9/9c/Simon_Herbert_A_The_Sciences_of_the_Artificial_3rd_ed.pdf. Chapter 2, page 43.
- Keywords: World_quotes Bounding_quotes Rational_quotes Way_quotes Magnify_quotes Computation_quotes Capability_quotes Individual_quotes Human_quotes Enhancement_quotes Possibility_quotes Collective_quotes Survival_quotes Prosper_quotes Combination_quotes Market_quotes Administration_quotes Hierarchy_quotes Species_quotes Enormous_quotes Increasing_quotes Specialization_quotes Division_quotes Work_quotes
Albert_Speer
Technology and Individual Freedom
“Every country in the world today faces the danger of being terrorized by technology. Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology.”
- Source: From the book "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer, published 1970 by Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-684-82949-4. Chapter 35, page 521.
Scale of the Crime
“For there are things for which one is guilty even if one might offer excuses - simply because the scale of the crimes is so overwhelming that by comparison any human excuse pales to insignificance."
- Source: From the book "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer, published 1970 by Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-684-82949-4. Chapter 35, page 523.
Baruch_Spinoza
Good and Evil
“Experience day by day protested and showed by infinite examples, that good and evil fortunes fall to the lot of pious and impious alike; still they would not abandon their inveterate prejudice, for it was more easy for them to class such contradictions among other unknown things of whose use they were ignorant, and thus to retain their actual and innate condition of ignorance, than to destroy the whole fabric of their reasoning and start afresh. They therefore laid down as an axiom, that God's judgments far transcend human understanding. Such a doctrine might well have sufficed to conceal the truth from the human race for all eternity, if mathematics had not furnished another standard of verity in considering solely the essence and properties of figures without regard to their final causes.”
- Source: A book. Entitled Ethics. Also entitled Ethica. Written by Baruch Spinoza. Originally published 1677. Translated from Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Part I, Appendix.
- Keywords: Ethics_quotes Deity_quotes Religion_quotes Prejudice_quotes Ignorance_quotes Reason_quotes Epistemology_quotes Mathematics_quotes Justice_quotes Causality_quotes Experience_quotes Day_quotes Protest_quotes Show_quotes Infinite_quotes Good_quotes Evil_quotes Fortune_quotes Fall_quotes Lot_quotes Pious_quotes Impious_quotes Abandon_quotes Inveterate_quotes Easy_quotes Contradiction_quotes Unknown_quotes Retain_quotes Actual_quotes Innate_quotes Condition_quotes Destroy_quotes Fabric_quotes Start_quotes Afresh_quotes Laid_quotes Axiom_quotes God_quotes Judgment_quotes Transcend_quotes Human_quotes Understand_quotes Doctrine_quotes Suffice_quotes Conceal_quotes Truth_quotes Race_quotes Eternity_quotes Furnish_quotes Standard_quotes Verity_quotes Consider_quotes Essence_quotes Property_quotes Figure_quotes Regard_quotes Final_quotes
Hunter_S_Thompson
Advice
“You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.”
- Source: A letter from Hunter S. Thompson written in 1958 to his friend Hume Logan. A copy of the letter is found in the book “Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience” edited by Shaun Usher published in 2014 by Chronicle Books, ISBN 978-1452134253.
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Shannon_Vallor
Fighting AI
“We can’t fight AI without fighting ourselves. The harms to people and to society that may follow from our relationship to ‘intelligent’ machines are not foreign assaults, but symptoms of an internal disorder: a fully human pathology that requires collective self-examination, critique, and most of all, healing.”
- Source: From the book “The AI Mirror” by Shannon Vallor. Published 2024 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197759066. Introduction, page 4.
- Keywords: AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Fight_quotes Ourself_quotes Harm_quotes People_quotes Society_quotes Follow_quotes Relationship_quotes Machine_quotes Foreign_quotes Assault_quotes Symptom_quotes Internal_quotes Disorder_quotes Full_quotes Human_quotes Pathology_quotes Require_quotes Collective_quotes Self_quotes Examination_quotes Critique_quotes Heal_quotes
AI Longtermism
“What longtermists and effective altruists have in common... is the utilitarian view that morality is a happiness optimization problem, a matter of running the numbers. Conveniently for AI enthusiasts... For a virtue ethicist like me, there are profound dangers and moral errors in any view of morality that separates it from humane feeling, relational bonds, and social context, reducing it to a mere computation of net happiness units.”
- Source: From the book “The AI Mirror” by Shannon Vallor. Published 2024 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197759066. Chapter 3, page 77.
- Keywords: AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Longtermism_quotes Effective_quotes Altruist_quotes Common_quotes Utilitarian_quotes View_quotes Morality_quotes Happiness_quotes Optimization_quotes Problem_quotes Matter_quotes Run_quotes Number_quotes Convenient_quotes Enthusiast_quotes Virtue_quotes Ethicist_quotes Profound_quotes Danger_quotes Moral_quotes Error_quotes Separate_quotes Human_quotes Feel_quotes Relational_quotes Bond_quotes Social_quotes Context_quotes Reduce_quotes Mere_quotes Computation_quotes Net_quotes Unit_quotes
Gerald_Weinberg
Programmers Are Human Beings
“If our experiences are any indication, each of them could be functioning more efficiently, with greater satisfaction, if he and his manager would only learn to look upon the programmer as a human being, rather than as another one of the machines.”
- Source: Book Entitled: The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition). Edition: Silver anniversary. Written By: Gerald Weinberg. Published originally: 1971. Republished: 2011.
Egoless Programming and John von Neumann
“Programming groups who have conquered the ego problem do exist and have existed from the earliest days of computing. John von Neumann himself was perhaps the first programmer to recognize his inadequacies with respect to examination of his own work. Those who knew him have said that he was constantly asserting what a lousy programmer he was, and that he incessantly pushed his programs on other people to read for errors and clumsiness. Yet the common image today of von Neumann is of the unparalleled computing genius — flawless in his every action. And indeed, there can be no doubt of von Neumann's genius. His very ability to realize his human limitations put him head and shoulders above the average programmer today. Average people can be trained to accept their humanity — their inability to function like a machine — and to value it and work with others so as to keep it under the kind of control needed if programming is to be successful.”
- Source: Chapter 4. Weinberg, G. M. (2011). The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition) | 1971. Weinberg & Weinberg.
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- Keywords: Egoless_quotes Programming_quotes Group_quotes Conquer_quotes Ego_quotes Computing_quotes Neumann_quotes Programmer_quotes Recognition_quotes Inadequacy_quotes Examination_quotes Peer_Review_quotes Error_quotes Clumsy_quotes Genius_quotes Flawless_quotes Action_quotes Doubt_quotes Ability_quotes Human_Limitations_quotes Training_quotes Humanity_quotes Functional_quotes Machine_quotes Control_quotes Success_quotes Problem_quotes Exist_quotes Earliest_quotes Respect_quotes Work_quotes Constant_quotes Assert_quotes Lousy_quotes Incessant_quotes Push_quotes People_quotes Read_quotes Image_quotes Unparallel_quotes Realize_quotes Human_quotes Limitation_quotes Head_quotes Shoulder_quotes Above_quotes Average_quotes Inability_quotes Value_quotes
Thornton_Wilder
Something Eternal
“Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look at'm very often. We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars... everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.”
- Source: Thornton Wilder writing for the Stage Manager character in act three of the play 'Our Town', first published in 1938 by Coward McCann, Inc., New York.
- Keywords: Now_quotes Thing_quotes Know_quotes Take_quotes Look_quotes Often_quotes Something_quotes Eternal_quotes House_quotes Name_quotes Earth_quotes Star_quotes Bone_quotes Human_quotes Being_quotes Great_quotes People_quotes Live_quotes Tell_quotes Year_quotes Surprise_quotes Lose_quotes Hold_quotes Deep_quotes Down_quotes Every_quotes
E_O_Wilson
Selection Pressures of Hunter-Gatherer Existence
“The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution.”
- Source: Chapter 4. On Human Nature (1978). On Human Nature; written by Edward O. Wilson; first edition; published in 1978 by Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0674634411.
Knowledge is the Ultimate Emancipator
“Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.”
- Source: Chapter 4 (Emergence). On Human Nature (1978). On Human Nature; written by Edward O. Wilson; first edition; published in 1978 by Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0674634411.
- Keywords: Pure_quotes Knowledge_quotes Ultimate_quotes Emancipator_quotes Equalize_quotes People_quotes Sovereign_quotes State_quotes Erode_quotes Archaic_quotes Barrier_quotes Change_quotes Ground_quotes Rule_quotes Human_quotes Behavior_quotes Superstition_quotes Promise_quotes Lift_quotes Trajectory_quotes Culture_quotes Evolution_quotes Believe_quotes Alter_quotes Main_quotes Course_quotes History_quotes Predict_quotes
Self-Knowledge
“Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.”
- Source: Chapter 4 (Emergence). On Human Nature (1978). On Human Nature; written by Edward O. Wilson; first edition; published in 1978 by Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0674634411.
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.
Shoshana_Zuboff
Advent of the Smart Machine
“Should the advent of the smart machine be taken as an invitation to relax the demands upon human comprehension and critical judgment? Does the massive diffusion of computer technology throughout our workplaces necessarily entail an equally dramatic loss of meaningful employment opportunities? Must the new electronic milieu engender a world in which individuals have lost control over their daily work lives?”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 5 (Introduction). ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Computer_quotes Comprehension_quotes Judgment_quotes Technology_quotes Workplace_quotes Meaning_quotes Purpose_quotes Employment_quotes Control_quotes Smart_quotes Machine_quotes Advent_quotes Invitation_quotes Relax_quotes Human_quotes Critical_quotes Massive_quotes Diffusion_quotes Dramatic_quotes Loss_quotes Opportunity_quotes Electronic_quotes Milieu_quotes Engender_quotes World_quotes Individual_quotes Lost_quotes Work_quotes Daily_quotes Life_quotes
Technology Leadership
“The questions that we face today are finally about leadership. Will there be leaders who are able to recognize the historical moment and the choices it presents? Will they find ways to create the organizational conditions in which new visions, new concepts, and a new language of workplace relations can emerge? Will they be able to create organizational innovations that can exploit the unique capacities of the new technology and thus mobilize their organization's productive potential to meet the heightened rigors of global competition? Will there be leaders who understand the crucial role that human beings from each organizational stratum can play in adding value to the production of goods and services? If not, we will be stranded in a new world with old solutions. We will suffer through the unintended consequences of change, because we have failed to understand this technology and how it differs from what came before.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 12. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Technology_quotes Leadership_quotes History_quotes Choice_quotes Organization_quotes Vision_quotes Innovation_quotes Workplace_quotes Language_quotes Exploitation_quotes Potential_quotes Competition_quotes Global_quotes Human_Resources_quotes Production_quotes Goods_quotes Services_quotes World_quotes Obsolescence_quotes Change_quotes Suffering_quotes Stranded_quotes Consequence_quotes Unintentional_quotes Failure_quotes Understanding_quotes Differences_quotes Question_quotes Today_quotes Present_quotes Find_quotes Create_quotes Condition_quotes Concept_quotes Relation_quotes Emerge_quotes Unique_quotes Capability_quotes New_quotes Mobilize_quotes Height_quotes Rigor_quotes Leader_quotes Crucial_quotes Role_quotes Human_quotes Stratum_quotes Play_quotes Add_quotes Value_quotes Old_quotes Solution_quotes
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.
Automation and Labor
“Perhaps the most compelling reality that drives managers to a narrowly conceived emphasis on automation is the web of economic logic in which they must operate. Frequently, new expenditures for technology can be justified only as a capital substitution for labor. It is often assumed that whatever was provided by the human contributor can be transferred to the automatic functioning of the machine system.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 248. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Management_quotes Automation_quotes Labor_quotes Economics_quotes Logic_quotes Technology_quotes Expenditure_quotes Cost_quotes Justification_quotes Capital_quotes Skill_quotes Knowledge_quotes Compelling_quotes Reality_quotes Drive_quotes Narrow_quotes Conceive_quotes Emphasis_quotes Web_quotes Operate_quotes Frequent_quotes Substitution_quotes Human_quotes Contributor_quotes Transfer_quotes Function_quotes Machine_quotes System_quotes
Automation Fantasy
“Some managers experience a sense of relief at the prospect of being freed from this dependency. Their enthusiasm reveals an underlying but potent fantasy, one in which perfect control through total automaticity allows them to avoid the messiness and potential conflict of real human interaction.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 268. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Management_quotes Relief_quotes Dependency_quotes Automation_quotes Fantasy_quotes Conflict_quotes Experience_quotes Sense_quotes Prospect_quotes Free_quotes Enthusiasm_quotes Reveal_quotes Underlying_quotes Potent_quotes Perfect_quotes Control_quotes Total_quotes Allow_quotes Avoid_quotes Messy_quotes Potential_quotes Real_quotes Human_quotes Interaction_quotes
Panopticon Recording
“Information systems that translate, record, and display human behavior can provide the computer age version of universal transparency with a degree of illumination that would have exceeded even Bentham's most outlandish fantasies. Such systems can become information panopticons that, freed from the constraints of space and time, do not depend upon the physical arrangement of buildings or the laborious record keeping of industrial administration. They do not require the mutual presence of objects of observation. They do not even require the presence of an observer. Information systems can automatically and continuously record almost anything their designers want to capture, regardless of the specific intentions brought to the design process or the motives that guide data interpretation and utilization.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 322. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Panopticon_quotes Information_quotes System_quotes Translation_quotes Display_quotes Computer_quotes Surveillance_quotes Universal_quotes Transparency_quotes Illumination_quotes Fantasy_quotes Constraint_quotes Time_quotes Space_quotes Dependency_quotes Physical_quotes Arrangement_quotes Administration_quotes Building_quotes Industrial_quotes Object_quotes Observation_quotes Automation_quotes Record_quotes Design_quotes Capture_quotes Intentional_quotes Process_quotes Motivation_quotes Guidance_quotes Interpretation_quotes Utilization_quotes Human_quotes Behavior_quotes Provide_quotes Age_quotes Version_quotes Free_quotes Laborious_quotes Keep_quotes Require_quotes Presense_quotes Observer_quotes Continuous_quotes Designer_quotes Regardless_quotes Specific_quotes Data_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.
