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Christopher_Wolfgang_Alexander

Complexity

“Today more and more design problems are reaching insoluble levels of complexity... In spite of their superficial simplicity, even these problems have a background of needs and activities which is becoming too complex to grasp intuitively.”
Keywords: Complexity_quotes Design_quotes Intuition_quotes Today_quotes Problem_quotes Reach_quotes Insoluble_quotes Level_quotes Superficial_quotes Simplicity_quotes Background_quotes Need_quotes Activity_quotes Become_quotes Grasp_quotes

Friedrich_Ludwig_Bauer

Need for Software Engineering

“What we need is Software Engineering.”
  • Source: Friedrich Ludwig Bauer's words at the end of 1967 within the NATO Science Committee charged with assessing the entire field of Computer Science. First generally recorded use of the term software engineering. Bauer also used the term in 1968 in a NATO conference in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Reported on page 119 of the book entitled Origins and Foundations of Computing. Written by Friedrich Ludwig Bauer. Published by Springer in 2010. New York, NY. ISBN: 9783642425639.
Keywords: Software_Engineering_quotes Need_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes

Harve_Bennett

Needs of the One

(Spock) “Why would you do this?”
(Kirk)  “Because the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.”
  • Source: From the movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” released 1984. Screenplay written by Harve Bennett. Directed by Leonard Nimoy. Produced by Harve Bennett. Production Company: Paramount Pictures. The character Spock played by actor Leonard Nimoy. The character Captain Kirk played by William Shatner.
Keywords: Do_quotes Need_quotes Many_quotes Outweigh_quotes Few_quotes One_quotes

Arthur_Bloch

Finagle's Third Law

“In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
Corollaries:
1. No one whom you ask for help will see it.
2. Everyone who stops by with unsought advice will see it immediately.”
  • Source: Attributed to a fictional character named Finagle, reported in the book "Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong" written by Arthur Bloch, first edition published in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288. Chapter Murphology, page 15.
Keywords: Murphy(topic)_quotes Law_quotes Collection_quotes Data_quotes Figure_quotes Obvious_quotes Correct_quotes Beyond_quotes Need_quotes Check_quotes Mistake_quotes Ask_quotes Help_quotes See_quotes Everyone_quotes No_one_quotes Stop_quotes Unsought_quotes Advice_quotes Immediate_quotes

David_Bohm

Theory Purpose

“we must avoid postulating a new element for each new phenomenon. But an equally serious mistake is to admit into the theory only those elements which can now be observed. For the purpose of a theory is not only to correlate the results of observations that we already know how to make, but also to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results. In fact, the better a theory is able to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results correctly, the more confidence we have that this theory is likely to be good representation of the actual properties of matter and not simply an empirical system especially chosen in such a way as to correlate a group of already known facts.”
  • Source: David Bohm in the paper “A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of ‘Hidden’ Variables. II”. Published January 1952 in Physical Review volume 35 issue 2.
Keywords: Avoid_quotes Postulate_quotes Element_quotes New_quotes Phenomenon_quotes Mistake_quotes Admit_quotes Theory_quotes Observation_quotes Purpose_quotes Correlation_quotes Result_quotes Already_quotes Make_quotes Suggest_quotes Need_quotes Kind_quotes Prediction_quotes Better_quotes Correct_quotes Confidence_quotes Good_quotes Represent_quotes Actual_quotes Property_quotes Matter_quotes Empirical_quotes System_quotes Choose_quotes Way_quotes Group_quotes Known_quotes Fact_quotes

Max_Born

Experience and Knowledge

“But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.”
  • Source: Max Born, My Life & My Views (1968), 57-8.
Keywords: Political_quotes Humanity_quotes Experience_quotes Interest_quotes Science_quotes Technology_quotes Contemplation_quotes Action_quotes Education_quotes Civilization_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Practical_quotes Affair_quotes Men_quotes Need_quotes Combine_quotes Relation_quotes Knowledge_quotes Impression_quotes Produce_quotes People_quotes Quality_quotes Require_quotes Haunt_quotes Idea_quotes Break_quotes Discovery_quotes Irreparable_quotes

Fred_Brooks

Tables versus Flowcharts

“Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.”
  • 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 9, page 102.
Keywords: Software_Engineering_quotes Flowchart_quotes Data_quotes Data_Driven_quotes Programming_quotes Communication_quotes Confusion_quotes Obfuscation_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes Conceal_quotes Table_quotes Continue_quotes Mystify_quotes Need_quotes Obvious_quotes

Warren_Buffett

Money Versus Business

“So as a practical matter we need management with the businesses that we buy and three times out of four thereabouts the manager is the owner and is receiving tens of millions maybe hundreds of millions of dollars so they don't have to work and we have to decide in that time when we meet them whether they love the business or love money... I'm not making a moral judgment about whether it's better to love the business or love money but it's very important for me to know which which of the two is the primary motivator with them... so all all we have to do is avoid anything that on our part that diminishes that love of the business or makes other conditions so intolerable that they overcome that love of the business. We have a number of people working for us that have no financial need to work at all and they probably outwork 95 percent or more of the people in the world and they do it because they just they love smacking the ball.”
Keywords: Practical_quotes Matter_quotes Management_quotes Business_quotes Owner_quotes Receive_quotes Money_quotes Work_quotes Decide_quotes Love_quotes Morality_quotes Judgment_quotes Knowledge_quotes Diminish_quotes Motivator_quotes Primary_quotes Avoid_quotes Condition_quotes Intolerable_quotes Overcome_quotes People_quotes Financial_quotes Need_quotes Outwork_quotes Do_quotes Smack_quotes Ball_quotes

Alistair_Cockburn

People Characteristics

"People, as active devices, have success modes and failure modes. The following are the main ones that I have named and used to date:
1. People are communicating beings, doing best face-to-face, in person, with real-time question and answer.
2. People have trouble acting consistently over time.
3. People are highly variable, varying from day to day and place to place.
4. People generally want to be good citizens, are good at looking around, taking initiative, and doing 'whatever is needed' to get the project to work.
There are other characteristics that I won’t expand here:
- People need both think time and communicating opportunities...
- People work well from examples...
- People prefer to fail conservatively than to risk succeeding differently; prefer to invent than to research, can only keep a small amount in their heads, and do make mistakes, and find it hard to change their habits.
- Individual personalities easily dominate a project.
- A person’s personality profile strongly affects their ability to perform specific assignments."
Keywords: People_quotes Success_quotes Failure_quotes Communication_quotes Proximity_quotes Real_Time_quotes Question_quotes Consistency_quotes Time_quotes Variability_quotes Citizen_quotes Good_quotes Observation_quotes Flexibility_quotes Altruism_quotes Conservative_quotes Initiative_quotes Project_quotes Risk_quotes Differences_quotes Invention_quotes Innovation_quotes Research_quotes Thinking_quotes Habit_quotes Personality_quotes Ability_quotes Limitation_quotes Consciousness_quotes Cognition_quotes Mistake_quotes Hard_quotes Domination_quotes Assignment_quotes Active_quotes Device_quotes Mode_quotes Beings_quotes Face_quotes Person_quotes Answer_quotes Trouble_quotes Day_quotes Place_quotes Look_quotes Need_quotes Work_quotes Characteristic_quotes Opportunity_quotes Example_quotes Fail_quotes Head_quotes Change_quotes Profile_quotes Affect_quotes Perform_quotes

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.”
Keywords: Task_quotes University_quotes Education_quotes Society_quotes Request_quotes Asking_quotes Need_quotes

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.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 178.
Keywords: Matter_quotes Deep_quotes Wed_quotes Free_quotes Enterprise_quotes System_quotes Life_quotes Acceptance_quotes Need_quotes Positive_quotes Government_quotes Consider_quotes Size_quotes Scale_quotes Desire_quotes Necessary_quotes Evil_quotes Action_quotes

Need to Get Together

“The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 548.
Keywords: Rule_quotes Minimum_quotes Need_quotes People_quotes Together_quotes Accomplish_quotes

Dwight_D_Eisenhower

Crises and Balance

“Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defenses; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research -- these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel. But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress. Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.”
  • Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell address (17 January 1961).
Keywords: Crisis_quotes Balance_quotes Action_quotes Miracle_quotes Solution_quotes Difficulty_quotes Defense_quotes Cure_quotes Program_quotes Research_quotes Possibility_quotes Consider_quotes Weighing_quotes Private_quotes Public_quotes Economy_quotes Cost_quotes Advantage_quotes Nation_quotes Necessary_quotes Comfort_quotes Desire_quotes Requirements_quotes Duty_quotes Individual_quotes Future_quotes Judgment_quotes Welfare_quotes Progress_quotes Frustration_quotesContinue_quotes Foreign_quotes Domestic_quotes Great_quotes Small_quotes Recurring_quotes Temptation_quotes Feel_quotes Spectacular_quotes Element_quotes Development_quotes Unrealistic_quotes Ill_quotes Agriculture_quotes Dramatic_quotes Expansion_quotes Basic_quotes Applied_quotes Promise_quotes Road_quotes Travel_quotes Proposal_quotes Need_quotes Essential_quotes Imbalance_quotes

David_Epstein

Problems

“In familiar problems, the space is ‘well-structured’ — marked with clear roads, so to speak — so one merely need follow known routes... For unfamiliar challenges, or ‘ill-structured’ problems, the problem space is so vast and uncharted that imposing some structure — deciding where to begin and how to advance — becomes the challenge.”
  • Source: David Epstein in the book “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better”. Published 2026 by Riverhead Books. Page 29. ISBN 978-0593715734 (Ebook).
Keywords: Familiar_quotes Problem_quotes Space_quotes Well_quotes Structure_quotes Mark_quotes Clear_quotes Road_quotes Mere_quotes Need_quotes Follow_quotes Know_quotes Route_quotes Unfamiliar_quotes Challenge_quotes Ill_quotes Vast_quotes Uncharted_quotes Impose_quotes Decide_quotes Begin_quotes Where_quotes How_quotes Advance_quotes Become_quotes

The Box

“Sometimes new ideas require entirely new forms. It’s not that we need to ‘think outside the box,’ so to speak, as much as we need to craft a new box, for new ideas. Constraints can help with that.”
  • Source: David Epstein in the book “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better”. Published 2026 by Riverhead Books. Page 70. ISBN 978-0593715734 (Ebook).
Keywords: Sometime_quotes New_quotes Idea_quotes Require_quotes Entire_quotes Form_quotes Need_quotes Think_quotes Outside_quotes Box_quotes Craft_quotes Constraint_quotes

Forbes_Tech_Council

Business Requirements

“One of the reasons software projects fail is the lack of understanding of the business’ needs... Assigning a seasoned business leader to the project team is essential for success.”
Keywords: Reason_quotes Software_quotes Project_quotes Fail_quotes Lack_quotes Understand_quotes Need_quotes Requirements_quotes Assign_quotes Business_quotes Leader_quotes Team_quotes Essential_quotes Success_quotes

Customer Needs

“Sometimes software projects begin with a great idea... only for developers to discover that the problem they solved wasn’t actually the problem their customer needed to be solved.”
Keywords: Sometime_quotes Software_quotes Project_quotes Great_quotes Idea_quotes Developer_quotes Discover_quotes Problem_quotes Solve_quotes Customer_quotes Need_quotes Requirements_quotes

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.
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

Dedre_Gentner

Abstract Creativity

“In the life we lead today, we need to be reminded of things that are only abstractly or relationally similar. And the more creative you want to be, the more important that is.”
  • Source: Dedre Gentner in an interview with author David Epstein reported in his book “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”. Published 2019 by Riverhead Books. Chapter 5, page 104. ISBN 978-0735214484.
Keywords: Life_quotes Lead_quotes Today_quotes Need_quotes Remind_quotes Thing_quotes Abstract_quotes Relational_quotes Similarity_quotes Creative_quotes Want_quotes Important_quotes

Yuval_Noah_Harari

Balance Truth and Order

“Simply increasing the speed and efficiency of our information technology doesn’t necessarily make the world a better place. It only makes the need to balance truth and order more urgent.”
  • 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 39. ISBN 978-0593734247.
Keywords: Increase_quotes Speed_quotes Efficiency_quotes Information_quotes Technology_quotes Make_quotes World_quotes Better_quotes Place_quotes Need_quotes Truth_quotes Balance_quotes Order_quotes Urgent_quotes

Robert_Heinlein

Privacy

“There is no privacy in any society crowded enough to need ID’s.”
  • 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. Prelude I, page 16. Character: Lazarus Long.
Keywords: Privacy_quotes Society_quotes Crowded_quotes Need_quotes ID_quotes

Donald_Hoffman

The Interface

“The purpose of a desktop interface is not to show you the ‘truth’ of the computer — where ‘truth,’ in this metaphor, refers to circuits, voltages, and layers of software. Rather, the purpose of an interface is to hide the ‘truth’ and to show simple graphics that help you perform useful tasks such as crafting emails and editing photos. If you had to toggle voltages to craft an email, your friends would never hear from you. That is what evolution has done. It has endowed us with senses that hide the truth and display the simple icons we need to survive long enough to raise offspring. Space, as you perceive it when you look around, is just your desktop — a 3D desktop. Apples, snakes, and other physical objects are simply icons in your 3D desktop.”
  • Source: Donald Hoffman, writing 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. Preface, page 7.
Keywords: Purpose_quotes Desktop_quotes Interface_quotes Show_quotes Truth_quotes Computer_quotes Metaphor_quotes Refer_quotes Circuit_quotes Voltage_quotes Layer_quotes Software_quotes Hide_quotes Simple_quotes Graphic_quotes Perform_quotes Task_quotes Craft_quotes Email_quotes Edit_quotes Photo_quotes Toggle_quotes Friends_quotes Hear_quotes Evolution_quotes Endow_quotes Sense_quotes Display_quotes Icon_quotes Need_quotes Survive_quotes Raise_quotes Offspring_quotes Space_quotes Perception_quotes Look_quotes 3D_quotes Apple_quotes Snake_quotes Physical_quotes Object_quotes

Sabine_Hossenfelder

Understanding

“To me, my personal story is evidence that not only I but many of us have the desire to understand the universe — for no other reason than understanding the universe. Our thirst for knowledge is ubiquitous, in both individuals and societies. We want to understand, partly because understanding is useful, but also, I think, out of a primary need to make sense of ourselves and our place in this world.”
  • Source: Hossenfelder, Sabine. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (p. 223). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Keywords: Personal_quotes Story_quotes Evidence_quotes Desire_quotes Understand_quotes Universe_quotes Thirst_quotes Knowledge_quotes Ubiquitous_quotes Individual_quotes Society_quotes Useful_quotes Primary_quotes Need_quotes Sense_quotes Self_quotes Place_quotes World_quotes

Quantum Opinion

“I think we need a political quantum orientation so that you can hold all political positions at the same time as long as no one asks.”
Keywords: Opinion_quotes Think_quotes Need_quotes Political_quotes Quantum_quotes Orientation_quotes Hold_quotes Position_quotes Same_quotes Time_quotes Ask_quotes

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.”
  • Source: Brooks Jackson, As co-author with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, in unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007), 69-70.
Keywords: Psychology_quotes Experiment_quotes Humanity_quotes Seek_quotes Weakness_quotes Evidence_quotes Support_quotes Status_Quo_quotes Belief_quotes Testing_quotes Hearing_quotes Critical_quotes Mind_quotes Information_quotes Suitability_quotes Need_quotes Exist_quotes Ignore_quotes Undercut_quotes Stringent_quotes

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.”
Keywords: Intelligence_quotes Ability_quotes Reason_quotes Find_quotes Relevance_quotes Material_quotes Deploy_quotes Attention_quotes Need_quotes

David_Kipping

Rendered Reality

“Reality could be rendered in real-time locally to deceive the inhabitants, rather than attempting to generate the entire system at once. Indeed, quantum systems need not truly be emulated, only our perceived observations of those systems, which may be far easier.”
  • Source: David Kipping from the paper “A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument”, published 2020 in the journal ‘Universe’, volume 6, issue 8. DOI:10.3390/universe6080109. Online at https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/6/8/109 (2025).
Keywords: Simulation_quotes Reality_quotes Render_quotes Real_quotes Time_quotes Local_quotes Deception_quotes Inhabitant_quotes Attempt_quotes Generate_quotes Entire_quotes System_quotes Once_quotes Quantum_quotes Need_quotes Emulate_quotes True_quotes Perception_quotes Observation_quotes Far_quotes Easy_quotes

Pierre-Simon_Laplace

No Need Hypothesis

“I had no need of that hypothesis.”
  • Source: Pierre-Simon Laplace in conversation with Napoleon Bonaparte circa 1802 (spoken in French). The statement is in response to Napoleon's question as to why Laplace did not write about the creator in his books. The conversation is recounted in a diary entry by astronomer William Herschel dated August 8, 1802. A published account of the conversation is found in the book ‘A Short Account of the History of Mathematics’ by W. W. Rouse Ball, 4th edition, published 1908. Statement translated from French “Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là”.
Keywords: Need_quotes Hypothesis_quotes God_quotes

John_Maynard_Keynes

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

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.”
  • Source: Arthur Koestler, In The Ghost in the Machine (1967), p. 298-299.
  • Note: 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”.
Keywords: Evolution_quotes Species_quotes Organ_quotes Brain_quotes Need_quotes Possibility_quotes Potential_quotes Unprecedent_quotes Know_quotes Wild_quotes Overshot_quotes Breathless_quotes Catch_quotes Unexploited_quotes Unexplored_quotes

Ipek_Ozkaya

Next Generation Software Engineers

“With LLMs and their sister AI-driven apps assisting developers, we need to be teaching next-generation software engineers when to trust, how to create evidence to trust, how to do trust assessment rapidly and correctly, and how to improve such assistants.”
  • Source: Ipek Ozkaya, “Application of Large Language Models to Software Engineering Tasks: Opportunities, Risks, and Implications,” in IEEE Software, volume 40, number 3, pages 4-8, May-June 2023, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2023.3248401.
Keywords: LLM_quotes Large_quotes Language_quotes Model_quotes Sister_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes App_quotes Application_quotes Assist_quotes Developer_quotes Need_quotes Teach_quotes Next_quotes Generation_quotes Software_quotes Engineer_quotes Trust_quotes Create_quotes Evidence_quotes Assessment_quotes Rapid_quotes Correct_quotes Improve_quotes Assistant_quotes

Data as Code

“We need to teach them [software engineers] how to evolve systems to incorporate such [AI] components, and we need to teach them to treat data as code.”
  • Source: Ipek Ozkaya, “Application of Large Language Models to Software Engineering Tasks: Opportunities, Risks, and Implications,” in IEEE Software, volume 40, number 3, pages 4-8, May-June 2023, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2023.3248401.
Keywords: Teach_quotes Software_quotes Engineer_quotes Evolve_quotes System_quotes Incorporate_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Component_quotes Treat_quotes Data_quotes Code_quotes Need_quotes

Manfred_Paul

Customer Knowledge

“The customer often does not know what he needs, and is sometimes cut off from knowing what is or what might be available.”
Keywords: Customer_quotes Client_quotes User_quotes Requirements_quotes Knowledge_quotes Availability_quotes Need_quotes Cut_quotes

Alan_Perlis

Modularity

“Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.”
Keywords: Module_quotes Potential_quotes Understanding_quotes Misunderstanding_quotes Hiding_quotes Information_quotes Imply_quotes Check_quotes Communication_quotes Need_quotes

Earl_Mac_Rauch

There You Are

“No need to be mean. 'Cause, remember: no matter where you go, there you are.”
  • Source: 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.
Keywords: Need_quotes Mean_quotes Memory_quotes Travel_quotes Go_quotes Remember_quotes Matter_quotes Causation_quotes

Todd_Rose

Data Point

“We just need the tools to understand each person as an individual, not as a data point on a bell curve.”
  • Source: From the book “The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness”, written by Todd Rose, published 2016 by HarperCollins, Kindle Edition, page 14. ISBN: 978-0062358387 (e-book).
Keywords: Need_quotes Tool_quotes Understand_quotes Each_quotes Individual_quotes Data_quotes Point_quotes Bell_quotes Curve_quotes

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.”
  • Source: George (Alfred Léon) Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science (1927), Vol. 1, 3-4.
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Jean-Paul_Sartre

Hell People

“There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is — other people!”
Keywords: Need_quotes Red_quotes Hot_quotes Poker_quotes Hell_quotes Other_quotes People_quotes

Charles_M_Schulz

Love and Chocolate

“All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
  • Source: 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.
Keywords: Love_quotes Chocolate_quotes Need_quotes Little_quotes Harm_quotes

Rupert_Sheldrake

Empirical Approach

“Science needs to be liberated from these constrictive dogmas of mechanistic materialism... If we go beyond those dogmas, science gets much more interesting. All sorts of new research become possible. New questions can be asked. We can find out more about nature and more about consciousness by doing science in a new more open way. But what remains part of science so crucial to it is the empirical approach. The putting forward of hypotheses, the critical discussion, and the testing of hypotheses by experiment, the scientific method.”
  • Source: Rupert Sheldrake. The video “Nature's Hidden Intelligence: Morphic Fields”. Online at https://youtu.be/qrIlWrGe4w4?t=4894. Posted 2025-01-03. Video offset 1:21:34.
Keywords: Need_quotes Liberate_quotes Constrict_quotes Dogma_quotes Mechanistic_quotes Materialism_quotes Interesting_quotes New_quotes Research_quotes Possible_quotes Question_quotes Ask_quotes Find_quotes Nature_quotes Consciousness_quotes Do_quotes Open_quotes Way_quotes Remain_quotes Part_quotes Science_quotes Crucial_quotes Empirical_quotes Approach_quotes Hypothesis_quotes Critical_quotes Discussion_quotes Test_quotes Experiment_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Method_quotes

Herbert_Simon

Not Just Optimization

“The subject of computational techniques need not be limited to optimization.”
Keywords: Subject_quotes Computation_quotes Technique_quotes Need_quotes Limitation_quotes Optimization_quotes

Adam_Smith

Corporations not Necessary

“The pretence that corporations are necessary for the better government of the trade is without any foundation.”
  • Source: Adam Smith (1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London, England: ‎W. Strahan and T. Cadell. Book I chapter X.
Keywords: Pretense_quotes Corporation_quotes Need_quotes Government_quotes Trade_quotes Foundation_quotes Better_quotes

Jack_B_Sowards

Needs of the Many

(Spock) "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
(Kirk)  "Or the one."
  • Source: From the movie “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” released 1982. Screenplay written by Jack B. Sowards. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Produced by Robert Sallin. Production Company: Paramount Pictures. The character Spock played by actor Leonard Nimoy. The character Captain Kirk played by William Shatner.
Keywords: Need_quotes Many_quotes Outweigh_quotes Few_quotes One_quotes

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.”
Keywords: Money_quotes Truth_quotes Measurement_quotes Wealth_quotes Need_quotes Contentment_quotes Fix_quotes Regard_quotes Actual_quotes Live_quotes Little_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.”'
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

Frederick_Winslow_Taylor

Great Men Needed

“In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.”
  • Source: F.W. Taylor, 1911. Principles of Scientific Management. New York and London, Harper & brothers. p. 7: Introduction.
Keywords: Merit_quotes Worker_quotes Employment_quotes System_quotes First_Class_quotes Scientific_Management_quotes Future_quotes Management_quotes Past_quotes Man_quotes First_quotes Sense_quotes Great_quotes Men_quotes Need_quotes Contrary_quotes Object_quotes Science_quotes Good_quotes Develop_quotes Best_quotes Rise_quotes Top_quotes Certain_quotes Rapid_quotes

Alan_Turing

See Ahead

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
  • Source: From the paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing. Published in 1936 in “Mind”, volume 49, number 236.
Keywords: See_quotes Short_quotes Distance_quotes Ahead_quotes Plenty_quotes Need_quotes Do_quotes Future_quotes

Shannon_Vallor

AI Creative Expression

“The heart of creative work is not creation, but expression... A generative AI model has nothing it needs to say.”
  • Source: From the book “The AI Mirror” by Shannon Vallor. Published 2024 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197759066. Chapter 5, page 141.
Keywords: AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Longtermism_quotes Heart_quotes Creative_quotes Work_quotes Creation_quotes Expression_quotes Generative_quotes Model_quotes Nothing_quotes Need_quotes Say_quotes

Stephen_Wolfram

Foundational Math Problem

“Here's the foundational problem. The mathematics you need is completely unknown. We're trying to build it, but here's how it works. If you study calculus, you'll study univariant calculus, calculus of one variable. You'll study multivariant calculus, calculus where there's variables x, y, z, and so on. What we need is calculus where there are fractional number of variables, and nobody has ever figured that out. Nobody has even tried to study that. When you look at the kind of geometry that emerges from these hypergraphs and things you end up needing to know about things like calculus in 3.1 dimensions. That's simply a mathematical structure that hasn't been built. We're in the process of building it, but it is a fairly heavy lift. That's a deep, foundational piece of mathematics that has to be built...”
  • Source: Spoken by Stephen Wolfram in a video interview with Brian Keating recorded in the YouTube video ‘What is Time? Stephen Wolfram’s Groundbreaking New Theory’ published on channel ‘Dr. Brian Keating’ on 2024-12-02. Video offset 1:32:08. Online at https://youtu.be/c-RO3vM10Ok?si=i-XspeEtzqA3jPl9 retrieved 2024.
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Edward_Yourdon

Better Programming Languages

“Better coding techniques may do nothing more than help you arrive at a disaster sooner than before. Better programming languages, used without anything else, may be just what your programmers need to develop a brilliant solution to the wrong problem.”
  • Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 2, section 2.1, page 27.
Keywords: Better_quotes Coding_quotes Technique_quotes Nothing_quotes Help_quotes Arrive_quotes Disaster_quotes Soon_quotes Programming_quotes Language_quotes Use_quotes Need_quotes Programmer_quotes Develop_quotes Brilliant_quotes Solution_quotes Wrong_quotes Problem_quotes

Prototyping Analysis Design

“Everyone knows the benefits of building a prototype for an end user who is unsure of his or her requirements, but prototyping cannot eliminate the need for formal analysis and design work on large, complex projects.”
  • Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 2, section 2.4, page 30.
Keywords: Everyone_quotes Know_quotes Benefit_quotes Build_quotes Prototyping_quotes End_quotes User_quotes Requirements_quotes Eliminate_quotes Need_quotes Formal_quotes Analysis_quotes Design_quotes Work_quotes Complex_quotes Project_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
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