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Douglas_Adams
Don't Panic
“In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover”.
- Source: Adams, D. (1979). ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. New York, NY: Harmony Books.
- Keywords: Panic_quotes Repository_quotes Knowledge_quotes Wisdom_quotes Accuracy_quotes Relax_quotes Civilization_quotes Galaxy_quotes Guide_quotes Encyclopedia_quotes Galactica_quotes Hiker_quotes Standards_quotes Omission_quotes Apocryphal_quotes Wild_quotes Inaccurate_quotes Score_quotes Old_quotes Pedestrian_quotes Work_quotes Cheap_quotes Word_quotes Inscribe_quotes Large_quotes Friendly_quotes Letter_quotes Cover_quotes
Tom_DeMarco and Tim_Lister
Cheeseburgers
"Development is inherently different from production. But managers of development and allied efforts often allow their thinking to be shaped by a management philosophy derived entirely from a production environment. Imagine for the moment that you’re the manager of the local fast food franchise. It makes perfect sense for you to take any or all of the following efficient production measures: - Squeeze out error. Make the machine (the human machine) run as smoothly as possible. - Take a hard line about people goofing off on the job. - Treat workers as interchangeable pieces of the machine. - Optimize the steady state. (Don’t even think about how the operation got up to speed, or what it would take to close it down.) - Standardize procedure. Do everything by the book. - Eliminate experimentation—that’s what the folks at headquarters are paid for. These would be reasonable approaches if you were in the fast food business (or any production environment), but you’re not. The 'make a cheeseburger, sell a cheeseburger' mentality can be fatal in your development area. It can only serve to damp your people’s spirits and focus their attention away from the real problems at hand. This style of management will be directly at odds with the work. To manage thinking workers effectively, you need to take measures nearly opposite those listed above."
- Source: Book: Entitled: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Edition: 3rd. Written by: Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister. Date published: 1987; 1999; 2013. Publisher: Addison-Wesley. Country: USA; GBR; CAN; DEU; FRA; ESP; ZAF; AUS; JPN; SGP; MEX. Language: en. ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-321-93411-6 (alk paper); 0-321-93411-3 (alk paper). Chapter: 2 (Make a Cheeseburger, Sell a Cheeseburger).
- Keywords: Cheeseburger_quotes Differences_quotes Production_quotes Development_quotes Manager_quotes Management_quotes Thinking_quotes Philosophy_quotes Environment_quotes Fast_Food_quotes Efficiency_quotes Error_quotes Machine_quotes Humanity_quotes Job_quotes Work_quotes Goofing_Off_quotes Worker_quotes Interchangeable_quotes Fungibility_quotes Status_Quo_quotes Optimization_quotes Change_quotes Steady_State_quotes Innovation_quotes Standards_quotes Book_quotes Experiment_quotes Headquarter_quotes Mentality_quotes Fatal_quotes Damp_quotes Imagination_quotes Steady_quotes State_quotes Eliminate_quotes Reason_quotes Make_quotes Sell_quotes Problem_quotes Effective_quotes Opposite_quotes
J_A_Haar
Software Documentation
“A standard for program documentation when programs are written in symbolic machine language should be set and each program should include this standard documentation in the ‘remarks field’ of the symbolic program.”
- Source: J.A. Haar 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 52.
- Keywords: Standards_quotes Documentation_quotes Programming_quotes Comment_quotes Program_quotes Symbolic_quotes Machine_quotes Language_quotes Remark_quotes
Carl_Sagan
Wrong Hypothesis OK
“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.”
- Source: Carl Sagan, Quoted in Donald R. Prothero and Carl Dennis Buell, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters (2007), 3.
Herbert_Simon
Uncertainty
“In facing uncertainty, standardization and coordination, achieved through agreed-upon assumptions and specifications, may be more effective than prediction. Uncertainty calls for flexibility.”
- 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 2, page 41.
Shoshana_Zuboff
Panopticon Coaching
“To be sure, some managers saw the enhanced certainty of their information about subordinates as an opportunity to accelerate learning and improve performance. They found that the data from the Overview System made it possible to survey a wide range of behavior for evidence of irregularities. To the extent that the sources of such irregularities could be discovered, the data could be used to 'coach' subordinates and to help them realign their behavior within acceptable standards... On the other hand, many of Cedar Bluff's managers were more interested in the possibility of obtaining foolproof data than in the opportunity of using such data for coaching. In the context of a conventional technology, managers had to rely on their subordinates for valid information. The quality of the data they received was likely to be a function of the quality of the reciprocal relationship they had established. In contrast, an informating technology could provide valid information under any conditions.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 324. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Panopticon_quotes Management_quotes Certainty_quotes Information_quotes Subordinate_quotes Opportunity_quotes Learning_quotes Improvement_quotes Performance_quotes Data_quotes Surveillance_quotes Behavior_quotes Evidence_quotes Irregularity_quotes Discovery_quotes Coaching_quotes Alignment_quotes Acceptability_quotes Standards_quotes Possibility_quotes Foolproof_quotes Convention_quotes Technology_quotes Reliance_quotes Dependency_quotes Validity_quotes Quality_quotes Reciprocal_quotes Relationship_quotes Condition_quotes Reliability_quotes Enhance_quotes Accelerate_quotes Overview_quotes System_quotes Survey_quotes Wide_quotes Range_quotes Source_quotes Help_quotes Realign_quotes Acceptable_quotes Manager_quotes Interest_quotes Context_quotes Conventional_quotes Rely_quotes Valid_quotes Information_quotes Quality_quotes Receive_quotes Function_quotes Relationship_quotes Establish_quotes Contrast_quotes Informate_quotes
Anticipatory Conformity
“Anticipatory conformity is a tactic for avoiding the dread associated with the possibility of shame. It accepts visibility and adapts to it by producing behavior that minimizes the risk of unwanted discovery. As the immediate environment is saturated with measurement, the pressure of visibility begins to reorganize behavior at its source, shaping it in conformity with the normative standards of the observer.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 345. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Anticipation_quotes Conformity_quotes Tactic_quotes Avoidance_quotes Dread_quotes Possibility_quotes Shame_quotes Visibility_quotes Adaptation_quotes Behavior_quotes Minimum_quotes Risk_quotes Discovery_quotes Environment_quotes Saturation_quotes Measurement_quotes Pressure_quotes Standards_quotes Observation_quotes Associate_quotes Accept_quotes Produce_quotes Unwanted_quotes Reorganize_quotes Source_quotes Shaping_quotes Conformity_quotes Normative_quotes Observer_quotes
