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Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra

Society Wants and Needs

"It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs."

• Dijkstra (2000). Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering (EWD 1305). Retrieved from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1305.html
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• Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra_quotes Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra_quotes/Society_Wants_and_Needs.

Peter_Drucker

Big Government

"No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil."

• Peter F. Drucker, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 178.
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Need to Get Together

"The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything."

• Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 548.
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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."

• 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.
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Brooks_Jackson and Kathleen_Hall_Jamieson

Psychological Experiments

"Psychological experiments have shown ... that humans tend to seek out even weak evidence to support their existing beliefs, and to ignore evidence that undercuts those beliefs. In the process, we apply stringent tests to evidence we don't want to hear, while letting slide uncritically into our minds any information that suits our needs."

• Brooks Jackson, As co-author with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, in unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007), 69-70.
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Daniel_Kahneman

Intelligence

"Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed."

• Thinking, Fast and Slow. 2011; ISBN 9780374275631.
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Arthur_Koestler

Evolution of the Brain

"It is entirely unprecedented that evolution should provide a species with an organ which it does not know how to use... But the evolution of man’s brain has so wildly overshot man’s immediate needs that he is still breathlessly catching up with its unexploited, unexplored possibilities."

• Arthur Koestler, In The Ghost in the Machine (1967), p. 298-299.
  • This is often seen paraphrased as “The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use”.
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Earl_Mac_Rauch

There You Are

"No need to be mean. 'Cause, remember: no matter where you go, there you are."

• Rauch/1984. Source: Movie. Written by: Earl Mac Rauch. Entitled: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Language: en. Release date: 1984. Directed by: {W. D. Richter}. Distributed by:20th Century Fox. Country: USA. Character: Buckaroo Banzai. Performed by: Peter Weller. Notes: Sherwood Productions was the production company.
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George_Sarton

Scientific Progress

"No history of civilization can be tolerably complete which does not give considerable space to the explanation of scientific progress. If we had any doubts about this, it would suffice to ask ourselves what constitutes the essential difference between our and earlier civilizations. Throughout the course of history, in every period, and in almost every country, we find a small number of saints, of great artists, of men of science. The saints of today are not necessarily more saintly than those of a thousand years ago; our artists are not necessarily greater than those of early Greece; they are more likely to be inferior; and of course, our men of science are not necessarily more intelligent than those of old; yet one thing is certain, their knowledge is at once more extensive and more accurate. The acquisition and systematization of positive knowledge is the only human activity which is truly cumulative and progressive. Our civilization is essentially different from earlier ones, because our knowledge of the world and of ourselves is deeper, more precise, and more certain, because we have gradually learned to disentangle the forces of nature, and because we have contrived, by strict obedience to their laws, to capture them and to divert them to the gratification of our own needs."

• George (Alfred Léon) Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science (1927), Vol. 1, 3-4.
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Charles_M_Schulz

Love and Chocolate

"All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

• A comic strip. Written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz. Published in the syndicated Peanuts comic strip between 1950 and 2000 (exact date unknown). Drawing shows the fictional character Lucy van Pelt speaking these words. Also found in the book Charlie Brown: Not Your Average Blockhead. Written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz. Published in 1997. Published by HarperCollins. New York, NY. ISBN 9780067575185.
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Baruch_Spinoza

How Much Money

"they who know the true use of money, and who fix the measure of wealth solely with regard to their actual needs, live content with little."

• A book. Entitled Ethics. Written by Baruch Spinoza. Originally published 1677. Online at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza). Translated from Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Part IV, Prop. XXIX.
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