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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.
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- Keywords: Do_quotes Need_quotes Many_quotes Outweigh_quotes Few_quotes One_quotes
Bible_Verses
Tower Of Babel (Genesis 11:4-6)
(4) “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
(5) “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
(6) “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
- Source: Genesis 11:4-6, King James Version of the Bible. Online at https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/.
- Keywords: Lord_quotes Build_quotes City_quotes Tower_quotes Top_quotes Reach_quotes Heaven_quotes Make_quotes Name_quotes Pride_quotes Hubris_quotes Scatter_quotes Face_quotes Whole_quotes Earth_quotes Children_quotes Men_quotes People_quotes One_quotes Unity_quotes Cooperation_quotes Language_quotes Do_quotes Nothing_quotes Restraint_quotes Imagination_quotes Babel_quotes
Arthur_Bloch
Murphy's Law Corollary 3
“If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.”
- Source: Attributed to Edward A Murphy, 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 11.
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Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
Stupidity Power
“Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. It would even seem that this is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.”
- 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 Close_quotes Observation_quotes Apparent_quotes Every_quotes Strong_quotes Upsurge_quotes Power_quotes Public_quotes Sphere_quotes Political_quotes Religious_quotes Nature_quotes Infect_quotes Large_quotes Part_quotes Humankind_quotes Seem_quotes Virtual_quotes Sociology_quotes Psychology_quotes Law_quotes One_quotes Other_quotes
Robert_N_Britcher
Module Specialization
“Centuries of experience and common sense dictate that a module be specialized, that it do one thing or one set of related things, like the liver or the heart...”
- Source: Britcher, Robert N. (1999). The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43323-0. Page 43.
Fred Brooks
Throw One Away
“Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”
- 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 11, page 116.
Great Designers
“A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built by multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.”
- 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.
- Keywords: Design_quotes People_quotes Software_quotes Quality_quotes Software_Quality_quotes Project_Management_quotes Excellence_quotes Software_Management_quotes Retrospection_quotes Fine_quotes Useful_quotes System_quotes Committee_quotes Build_quotes Multipart_quotes Excited_quotes Passionate_quotes Fan_quotes Product_quotes One_quotes Few_quotes Mind_quotes Great_quotes Designer_quotes Management_quotes
Peter_Drucker
Drucker's Law
“Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy's Law: 'If anything can go wrong, it will.' But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker's law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'”
- Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 681.
Yuval_Noah_Harari
Truth
“‘Truth’ is understood as something that accurately represents certain aspects of reality. Underlying the notion of truth is the premise that there exists one universal reality. Anything that has ever existed or will ever exist in the universe.”
- 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 1 page 7. ISBN 978-0593734247.
Douglas_Hofstadter
Contradiction Bundle
“We all are bundles of contradictions, and we manage to hang together by bringing out only one side of ourselves at a given time.”
- 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 12. Page 383.
- Keywords: Bundle_quotes Contradiction_quotes Hang_quotes Together_quotes Bring_quotes One_quotes Side_quotes Self_quotes Time_quotes
William_James
Simple Sensation
“No one ever had a simple sensation by itself. Consciousness, from our natal day, is of a teeming multiplicity of objects and relations, and what we call simple sensations are results of discriminative attention, pushed often to a very high degree.”
- Source: William James (1890). From the book "The Principles of Psychology". Volume I. Chapter 9. Published in 1980 by Henry Holy, New York, NY.
Carl_Jung
Metaphysical Belief
“One never possesses a metaphysical belief but is possessed by it.”
- Source: Written by Carl Jung in the book “Answer to Job”. Published in London, UK by Routledge. Published 2002. Page 117.
- Keywords: One_quotes Possess_quotes Metaphysical_quotes Belief_quotes
The Path
“There is only one way and that is your way. You seek the path? I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you. May each go his own way. I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children.”
- Source: Written by Carl G. Jung in ‘The Red Book’, also known as ‘Liber Novus’, which was originally written from 1914 to 1930. It was first published in 2009 by W. W. Norton in a facsimile edition, complete with an English translation. The edition used here is the book ‘The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition’, written by C. G. Jung, edited with an introduction by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani; published by W. W. Norton in 2012; ISBN 978-0393089080; Page 125.
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Monad Mandala
“The self, I thought, was like the monad which I am, and which is my world. The mandala represents this monad, and corresponds to the microcosmic nature of the soul... Only when I began to paint the mandalas did I see that all the paths I took, all the steps I made, all led back to the one point, that is, to the center. The mandala became the expression of all paths.”
- Source: Written by Carl G. Jung in ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’; edited by Aniela Jaffe, translated by Clara Winston; First published in German in 1962, an English translation appeared in 1963. Also Published by Vintage in 1989. Page 221. ISBN 978-0679723950.
- Also reported in ‘The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition’, written by C. G. Jung, edited with an introduction by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani; published by W. W. Norton in 2012; ISBN 978-0393089080; Page 44-45.
Edward_A_Murphy
Murphy's Law
Popular Version: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” Original Version First Report: “If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way” Original Version Second Report: "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will."
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- Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the book “Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong” written by Arthur Bloch, first edition publish in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288.
- Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the article “The Science of Murphy’s Law” written by Robert A. J. Matthews, published in 'Scientific America, volume 276 number 4, April 1997, DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0497-88.
- Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the book “The Making of a Scientist” by Anne Roe, published in 1953 by Dodd and Mead, New York, NY. ISBN 10: 0837171512. ISBN 13: 9780837171517.
- Notes: An idea expressed by Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. in 1949 in reference to rocket sled engineering work.
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David_E_Nye
Technology Contested
“Technologies are contested terrains. World's fairs, spectacular lighting, and media events all have changed in response to shifting public tastes. Americans had divided reactions to the Apollo Space Program, and they created divergent narratives to understand computers, the electrification of society, and the meanings of energy sources. Technologies are contested, and a close reading of such events... reveals not hegemonic control but a welter of meanings. The public understands technology not as one-dimensional agents of change, but as both enabling and disabling innovations.”
- 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, page 3.
- Keywords: Technology_quotes Contested_quotes Terrain_quotes World_quotes Fair_quotes Spectacular_quotes Lighting_quotes Media_quotes Event_quotes Change_quotes Response_quotes Public_quotes Taste_quotes American_quotes Divide_quotes Reaction_quotes Apollo_quotes Space_quotes Program_quotes Create_quotes Divergent_quotes Narrative_quotes Understand_quotes Computer_quotes Electrification_quotes Society_quotes Meaning_quotes Energy_quotes Hegemonic_quotes Control_quotes Welter_quotes One_quotes Dimension_quotes Agent_quotes Enable_quotes Disable_quotes Innovation_quotes
Frank_H_T_Rhodes
Kettle Boiling
“It is not a question of choosing one and thereby rejecting the other; both are necessary in order to do justice to the totality... This is perhaps simply shown by Dr Douglas Spanner's example of the boiling kettle. Why, I may ask, is the kettle boiling? There are two kinds of answer that can be given. One is, it is boiling because energy is being supplied to it in the form of heat and the maximum vapour pressure of the water is now equal to the atmospheric pressure. The other kind of answer which may be given is that the kettle is boiling because I put it on to make a cup of tea. Now these are different answers, the first in terms of immediate causes and the second in terms of ultimate cause. But both are true, both are complementary and not competitive. One answer is appropriate within a particular frame of reference, the other within another frame of reference. There is a sense in which each is incomplete without the other.”
- Source: Frank H. T. Rhodes in the essay “Christianity in a Mechanistic Universe”, included in the book “Christianity in a Mechanistic Universe and Other Essays” edited by Donald M. MacKay, published by Inter-Varsity Press, Chicago, Illinois, in 1965.
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- Alister_McGrath_quotes/Why_is_the_Kettle_Boiling
- https://www.creationandevolution.co.uk/dcs.htm (Retrieved 2024-06-19).
- Douglas C. Spanner is Professor Emeritus of Plant Biophysics at London University.
- Kettle analogy originally in the book “Creation & Evolution” by Douglas C. Spanner, published by Douglas C. Spanner in 2004, Introduction. Online at https://creationandevolution.co.uk/Creation & Evolution - Prof.D.C.Spanner.pdf retrieved 2024-06-19.
- “Suppose someone asks "Why is that kettle boiling?", he might get the answer "Because it's on the gas". A pure physicist (100% such) might find that answer satisfying, but few others would. They would want to know more. "A tired visitor is expected and a kind hostess is making tea". Here the explanation has been extended to a new level altogether.”
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- Frank_H_T_Rhodes_quotes/Kettle_Boiling
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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.
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- Keywords: Need_quotes Many_quotes Outweigh_quotes Few_quotes One_quotes
JRR_Tolkien
One Ring
“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
- Source: From the book “The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, written by {J. R. R. Tolkien}, first published by {George Allen and Unwin} in 1954. E-book edition published by Harper Collins in 2022. ISBN 978-0547952017. Words inscribed on the ring. Book One, chapter 2, page 93.
- Keywords: One_quotes Ring_quotes Rule_quotes All_quotes Find_quotes Bring_quotes Dark_quotes Bind_quotes
Shannon_Vallor
AI Data
“Only a modest subset of what is representable in digital form can be generated or stored in sufficient quantity and quality to be useful... An event that only happens once in a generation, or to one person in a billion, even if it is world-altering, is virtually invisible to a machine learning model.”
- Source: From the book “The AI Mirror” by Shannon Vallor. Published 2024 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197759066. Chapter 2, page 48.
- Keywords: Modest_quotes Subset_quotes Represent_quotes Digital_quotes Form_quotes Generate_quotes Store_quotes Sufficient_quotes Quantity_quotes Quality_quotes Useful_quotes Event_quotes Happen_quotes Once_quotes Generation_quotes Person_quotes One_quotes Billion_quotes World_quotes Alter_quotes Virtual_quotes Invisible_quotes Machine_quotes Learn_quotes Model_quotes Data_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes
