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Arthur_Bloch
Murphy's Law Corollary 9
“Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.”
- 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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- Keywords: Nature_quotes Always_quotes Side_quotes Hidden_quotes Flaw_quotes Law_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes
Robert_N_Britcher
Reuse Sharing and Copying
“Sharing is one side of re-using; copying is another.”
- Source: Britcher, Robert N. (1999). The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43323-0. Page 129.
- Keywords: Sharing_quotes Reuse_quotes Copying_quotes Programming_quotes Side_quotes
Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra
Lines of Code
“My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent': the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.”
- Source: Dijkstra (1988) On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD1036). Retrieved 2022 from http://www.cs.utexas.edu
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Freeman_Dyson
Science Uncertain
“The fringe of physics is not a sharp boundary with truth on one side and fantasy on the other. All of science is uncertain and subject to revision. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. The fringe is the unexplored territory where truth and fantasy are not yet disentangled.”
- Source: Freeman Dyson [book/author]; “Dreams of Earth and Sky” [title]; 192 [page]; New York Review Books [publisher]; First [edition]; 2015 [pubdate]; New York, NY [publoc]; 978-1590178546 [isbn].
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
Baruch_Spinoza
Explanations
“Very many controversies have arisen from the fact, that men do not rightly explain their meaning, or do not rightly interpret the meaning of others. For, as a matter of fact, as they flatly contradict themselves, they assume now one side, now another, of the argument, so as to oppose the opinions, which they consider mistaken and absurd in their opponents.”
- Source: 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 II, Prop. XLVII note.
- Keywords: Reason_quotes Interpretation_quotes Contradiction_quotes Communication_quotes Controversy_quotes Arise_quotes Fact_quotes Men_quotes Rightly_quotes Explain_quotes Meaning_quotes Assume_quotes Side_quotes Argument_quotes Oppose_quotes Opinion_quotes Consider_quotes Mistake_quotes Absurd_quotes Opponent_quotes
Frederick_Winslow_Taylor
Workman Soldiering
“After a workman has had the price per piece of the work he is doing lowered two or three times as a result of his having worked harder and increased his output, he is likely to entirely lose sight of his employer's side of the case and to become imbued with a grim determination to have no more cuts if soldiering can prevent it.”
- Source: F.W. Taylor (1903) "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers, " in: Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 24: 1337-1480. p. 1352.
- Keywords: Productivity_quotes Soldiering_quotes Ignorance_quotes Employment_quotes Labor_quotes Deception_quotes Worker_quotes Optimization_quotes Exploitation_quotes Workman_quotes Price_quotes Piece_quotes Work_quotes Lower_quotes Result_quotes Hard_quotes Increase_quotes Output_quotes Likely_quotes Entire_quotes Lose_quotes Sight_quotes Employer_quotes Side_quotes Case_quotes Become_quotes Imbued_quotes Grim_quotes Determination_quotes Cut_quotes Prevent_quotes
Maximum Prosperity
“It would seem to be so self-evident that maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with maximum prosperity for the employee, ought to be the two leading objects of management, that even to state this fact should be unnecessary. And yet there is no question that, throughout the industrial world, a large part of the organization of employers, as well as employees, is for war rather than for peace, and that perhaps the majority on either side do not believe that it is possible so to arrange their mutual relations that their interests become identical.”
- Source: F.W. Taylor, 1911. Principles of Scientific Management. New York and London, Harper & brothers. Chapter 1.
- Keywords: Employment_quotes Scientific_Management_quotes Prosperity_quotes Management_quotes Conflict_quotes War_quotes Cooperation_quotes Maximum_quotes Optimal_quotes Science_quotes Self-evident_quotes Evident_quotes Employer_quotes Couple_quotes Employee_quotes Leading_quotes Object_quotes State_quotes Fact_quotes Unnecessary_quotes Question_quotes Industrial_quotes World_quotes Part_quotes Organization_quotes Peace_quotes Majority_quotes Side_quotes Believe_quotes Possible_quotes Arrange_quotes Mutual_quotes Relation_quotes Interest_quotes Identical_quotes
Alfred_Wegener
Continental Drift
“The first concept of continental drift first came to me as far back as 1910, when considering the map of the world, under the direct impression produced by the congruence of the coast lines on either side of the Atlantic. At first I did not pay attention to the ideas because I regarded it as improbable. In the fall of 1911, I came quite accidentally upon a synoptic report in which I learned for the first time of palaeontological evidence for a former land bridge between Brazil and Africa. As a result I undertook a cursory examination of relevant research in the fields of geology and palaeontology, and this provided immediately such weighty corroboration that a conviction of the fundamental soundness of the idea took root in my mind.”
- Source: Alfred L. Wegener, In The Origins of Continents and Oceans (4th ed. 1929), trans. John Biram (1966), 1.
- Keywords: Conception_quotes Continental_quotes Drift_quotes Map_quotes World_quotes Impress_quotes Produce_quotes Congruity_quotes Coast_quotes Line_quotes Side_quotes Atlantic_quotes Attention_quotes Idea_quotes Regard_quotes Improbable_quotes Fall_quotes Accident_quotes Synoptic_quotes Report_quotes Learning_quotes First_quotes Palaeontology_quotes Evidence_quotes Former_quotes Land_quotes Bridge_quotes Brazil_quotes Africa_quotes Result_quotes Examination_quotes Relevance_quotes Research_quotes Field_quotes Geology_quotes Provide_quotes Immediate_quotes Weight_quotes Corroborate_quotes Conviction_quotes Fundamental_quotes Sound_quotes Root_quotes Mind_quotes
