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Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
Stupidity Liberation
“Yet at this very point it becomes quite clear that only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity. Here we must come to terms with the fact that in most cases a genuine internal liberation becomes possible only when external liberation has preceded it. Until then we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person. This state of affairs explains why in such circumstances our attempts to know what ‘the people’ really think are in vain and why, under these circumstances, this question is so irrelevant for the person who is thinking and acting responsibly.”
- 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 Point_quotes Become_quotes Clear_quotes Act_quotes Liberation_quotes Instruction_quotes Overcome_quotes Term_quotes Fact_quotes Most_quotes Case_quotes Genuine_quotes Internal_quotes Possible_quotes External_quotes Precede_quotes Abandon_quotes Attempt_quotes Convince_quotes Person_quotes State_quotes Affair_quotes Explain_quotes Circumstance_quotes People_quotes Think_quotes Vain_quotes Question_quotes Irrelevant_quotes Responsible_quotes
Franz_Selig
Specification Feedback
“External specifications at any level describe the software product in terms of the items controlled by and available to the user. The internal design describes the software product in terms of the program structures which realize the external specifications. It has to be understood that feedback between the design of the external and internal specifications is an essential part of a realistic and effective implementation process. Furthermore, this interaction must begin at the earliest stage of establishing the objectives, and continue until completion of the product.”
- Source: F. Selig 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.
- Keywords: Software_Engineering_quotes Specification_quotes Design_quotes Feedback_quotes Implementation_quotes Project_quotes Goal_quotes Objectives_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes Level_quotes Product_quotes Term_quotes Item_quotes Control_quotes Available_quotes Internal_quotes Realize_quotes External_quotes Understand_quotes Essential_quotes Part_quotes Realistic_quotes Effective_quotes Process_quotes Interaction_quotes Stage_quotes Establish_quotes Completion_quotes
Herbert_Simon
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
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
Patrick_Vlaskovits
Faster Horse
“However, even if Ford didn’t verbalize his thoughts on customers’ ostensible inability to communicate their unmet needs for innovative products — history indicates that Henry Ford most certainly did think along those lines... Henry Ford froze the design of the Model T... Ford had no compelling reason to innovate in any other sphere other than cost and price reduction... But everything changed with the onset of the innovations introduced by General Motors in the 1920s, which took the direct opposite of Henry Ford’s tack of “Any color … so long as it is black” and is best summed up by Alfred Sloan’s consumer-research driven “A Car for Every Purse and Purpose”... In 1921, the Ford Motor Company sold about 2/3 of all the cars built in the U.S. By 1926, this share had fallen to approximately 1/3. And in 1927, when Ford belatedly responded (at tremendous financial cost and internal strife) to changes in the market’s tastes and competitive innovation by shutting down production temporarily to re-tool his factories and bring the Model A to the market, that percentage fell to about 15%... Yes, some customers in certain types of businesses are quite capable of verbalizing precisely what sort of innovative product one could build and sell them. And of course, customers in other types of businesses are wholly incapable of verbalizing, with any sort of fidelity whatsoever, what they need and why they need it. An innovator should have understanding of one’s customers and their problems via empirical, observational, anecdotal methods or even intuition. They should also feel free to ignore customers’ inputs. Because by now it should be clear that Ford’s adherence to his vision of the mass-market car and how to materialize that vision was instrumental in both his early success in growing Ford Motor Company as well as his later failure to respond in a timely and effective manner to rapid innovation in the marketplace.”'
- Source: Patrick Vlaskovits in the article “Henry Ford, Innovation, and That Faster Horse Quote”, published by Harvard Business Review, 2011-08-29. Online at https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast retrieved 2024-05-28.
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- Keywords: Ford(topic)_quotes Sloan(topic)_quotes Verbalize_quotes Thinking_quotes Customer_quotes Requirements_quotes Ostensible_quotes Inability_quotes Communication_quotes Unmet_quotes Need_quotes Innovation_quotes Product_quotes History_quotes Freeze_quotes Design_quotes Model_T_quotes Automobile_quotes Compel_quotes Sphere_quotes Cost_quotes Price_quotes Reduction_quotes Change_quotes General_Motors_quotes Consumer_quotes Research_quotes Opposite_quotes Color_quotes Black_quotes Car_quotes Purse_quotes Ford_Motor_quotes Build_quotes United_States_quotes Share_quotes Market_quotes Belated_quotes Respond_quotes Tremendous_quotes Financial_quotes Internal_quotes Strife_quotes Taste_quotes Competition_quotes Shut_quotes Production_quotes Tool_quotes Factory_quotes Model_A_quotes Percentage_quotes Type_quotes Business_quotes Capable_quotes Precise_quotes Sort_quotes Sell_quotes Incapable_quotes Fidelity_quotes What_quotes Why_quotes Understand_quotes Problem_quotes Empirical_quotes Observation_quotes Anecdotal_quotes Method_quotes Intuition_quotes Feel_quotes Free_quotes Ignore_quotes Input_quotes Clear_quotes Adherence_quotes Vision_quotes Mass_quotes Innovator_quotes Materialize_quotes Instrumental_quotes Success_quotes Early_quotes Grow_quotes Later_quotes Failure_quotes Timely_quotes Effective_quotes Manner_quotes Rapid_quotes Marketplace_quotes Horse_quotes Faster_quotes
Shoshana_Zuboff
Abstract Work
“As the work that people do becomes more abstract, the need for positive motivation and internal commitment becomes all the more crucial.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 291. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Work_quotes Abstraction_quotes People_quotes Motivation_quotes Commitment_quotes Do_quotes Need_quotes Positive_quotes Internal_quotes Crucial_quotes
