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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.
- 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
Steven_Pinker
Assumptions
“Only an angel could be a general problem-solver; we mortals have to make fallible guesses from fragmentary information. Each of our mental modules solves its unsolvable problem by a leap of faith about how the world works, by making assumptions that are indispensable but indefensible — the only defense being that the assumptions worked well enough in the world of our ancestors.”
- 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 1 Section Reverse-Engineering the Psyche.
- Keywords: Angel_quotes Assumption_quotes Generality_quotes Problem_quotes Solution_quotes Mortality_quotes Fallible_quotes Guess_quotes Fragment_quotes Information_quotes Mental_quotes Module_quotes Unsolvable_quotes Leap_quotes Faith_quotes World_quotes Work_quotes Indespensible_quotes Indefensible_quotes Defense_quotes Enough_quotes Ancestor_quotes Problem-Solver_quotes World_quotes
Herbert_Simon
Intuition
“Intuition is a genuine enough phenomenon which can be explained rather simply: most intuitive leaps are acts of recognition.”
- 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 4, page 89.
- Keywords: Intuition_quotes Genuine_quotes Phenomena_quotes Explanation_quotes Leap_quotes Act_quotes Recognition_quotes Simplicity_quotes
William_Whewell
Prediction of Facts
“We have here spoken of the prediction of facts of the same kind as those from which our rule was collected. But the evidence in favour of our induction is of a much higher and more forcible character when it enables us to explain and determine cases of a kind different from those which were contemplated in the formation of our hypothesis. The instances in which this has occurred, indeed, impress us with a conviction that the truth of our hypothesis is certain. No accident could give rise to such an extraordinary coincidence. No false supposition could, after being adjusted to one class of phenomena, so exactly represent a different class, when the agreement was unforeseen and contemplated. That rules springing from remote and unconnected quarters should thus leap to the same point, can only arise from that being where truth resides.”
- From the book 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History', Volume 2. by William Whewell. Publication date 1840. Page 230. Online at https://ia800209.us.archive.org/19/items/philosophyinduc00whewgoog/philosophyinduc00whewgoog.pdf.
- Keywords: Speak_quotes Prediction_quotes Fact_quotes Kind_quotes Rule_quotes Collect_quotes Evidence_quotes Favor_quotes Induction_quotes High_quotes Force_quotes Character_quotes Enable_quotes Explanation_quotes Determine_quotes Differences_quotes Contemplate_quotes Formation_quotes Hypothesis_quotes Instance_quotes Occur_quotes Impress_quotes Conviction_quotes Truth_quotes Certainty_quotes Accident_quotes Extraordinary_quotes Coincidence_quotes False_quotes Supposition_quotes Adjustment_quotes Phenomena_quotes Exact_quotes Representation_quotes Class_quotes Agreement_quotes Unforeseen_quotes Spring_quotes Remote_quotes Unconnect_quotes Quarter_quotes Leap_quotes Point_quotes Arise_quotes Reside_quotes
