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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

General Aphorisms

Past History

"The Past Is History. The Future Is a Mystery. Today Is a Gift. That’s Why It’s Called the Present."
  • Source: Traditional. Not clearly identified. Sometimes attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, Barbara De Angelis, Joan Rivers, Bill Keane, Emily Dickinson, Liz Curtis Higgs, Babatunde Olatunji, Susan Barkdoll, Nicholas L. Santowassa, Abigail Van Buren, or Alice Morse Earle.
Keywords: Past_quotes History_quotes Future_quotes Mystery_quotes Call_quotes Present_quotes Today_quotes Gift_quotes

Fred_Brooks

Rapid Prototyping

“Today the software engineering discipline is much more sophisticated. We recognize that rapid prototyping is an essential tool for formulating precise requirements. Not only is the design process iterative; the design-goal-setting process is itself iterative.”
  • Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (2010). The Design of Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 978-0-201-36298-5. Chapter 3, page 23.
Keywords: Software_Engineering_quotes Rapid_quotes Prototyping_quotes Tool_quotes Requirements_quotes Iterative_quotes Goal_quotes Design_quotes Today_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes Discipline_quotes Sophisticated_quotes Recognize_quotes Essential_quotes Formulate_quotes Precise_quotes Process_quotes Set_quotes

Peter_Drucker

Bitch Goddess

"Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the 'bitch goddess success.' A philosopher of business today might well talk of the 'bitch goddess growth.'"
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 780.
Keywords: Growth_quotes Goal_quotes Repetition_quotes Delusion_quotes America_quotes Philosophy_quotes Talking_quotes Bitch_quotes Goddess_quotes Philosopher_quotes Business_quotes Today_quotes Might_quotes

Surviving Government

“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 258.
Keywords: Systematic_quotes Terror_quotes Indoctrinate_quotes Manipulate_quotes Stimulate_quotes Reward_quotes Punish_quotes Today_quotes Break_quotes Man_quotes Conversion_quotes Brute_quotes Animal_quotes First_quotes Step_quotes Survival_quotes Make_quotes Government_quotes Legitimate_quotes Attempt_quotes Deprive_quotes Power_quotes International_quotes Action_quotes Ban_quotes

Dwight_D_Eisenhower

Future of Society

“As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
  • Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell address (17 January 1961).
Keywords: Society_quotes Future_quotes Government_quotes Impulse_quotes Today_quotes Plunder_quotes Convenience_quotes Resource_quotes Tomorrow_quotes Mortgage_quotes Material_quotes Asset_quotes Family_quotes Risk_quotes Loss_quotes Spirituality_quotes Political_quotes Heritage_quotes Democracy_quotes Survival_quotes Generation_quotes Insolvent_quotes Phantom_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

Robert_Heinlein

Tomorrow

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.”.
  • 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. ISBN: 9781101503072 (ebook). Page 346 (Kindle edition).
Keywords: Never_quotes Do_quotes Today_quotes Put_quotes Off_quotes Tomorrow_quotes Improve_quotes Odds_quotes Probability_quotes

Bernardo_Kastrup

Parapsychology

“Today, based on the latest research, we know that parapsychological phenomena are indeed most likely real.”
  • Source: From “Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe”. Written by Bernardo Kastrup. Published by IFF Books, Washington DC. Kindle Edition. Page 55. Chapter 4.
Keywords: Today_quotes Research_quotes Parapsychology_quotes Phenomena_quotes Likely_quotes Real_quotes

John_Maynard_Keynes

Technological Unemployment

“In our own lifetimes... we may be able to perform all the operations of agriculture, mining, and manufacture with a quarter of the human effort to which we have been accustomed. For the moment the very rapidity of these changes is hurting us and bringing difficult problems to solve... We are being afflicted with... technological unemployment. This means unemployment due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour. But this is only a temporary phase of maladjustment... In the long run... mankind is solving its economic problem. I would predict that the standard of life in progressive countries one hundred years hence will be between four and eight times as high as it is today.”
  • 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: Lifetime_quotes Perform_quotes Ability_quotes Operation_quotes Agriculture_quotes Mining_quotes Manufacturing_quotes Quarter_quotes Human_quotes Effort_quotes Rapid_quotes Change_quotes Hurt_quotes Bring_quotes Difficult_quotes Problem_quotes Solve_quotes Afflict_quotes Technology_quotes Unemployment_quotes Employment_quotes Discover_quotes Means_quotes Economize_quotes Labor_quotes Outrun_quotes Pace_quotes Find_quotes Use_quotes Temporary_quotes Phase_quotes Maladjustment_quotes Adjustment_quotes Long_quotes Run_quotes Mankind_quotes Humanity_quotes Economic_quotes Prediction_quotes Standard_quotes Life_quotes Living_quotes Progressive_quotes Country_quotes Hundred_quotes Year_quotes High_quotes Today_quotes

Purpose and Immortality

“The ‘purposive’ man is always trying to secure a spurious and delusive immortality for his acts by pushing his interest in them forward into time. He does not love his cat, but his cat’s kittens; nor, in truth, the kittens, but only the kittens’ kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For him jam is not jam unless it is a case of jam tomorrow and never jam today.”
  • 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: Purpose_quotes Man_quotes Try_quotes Secure_quotes Spurious_quotes Delusion_quotes Immortal_quotes Act_quotes Push_quotes Interest_quotes Forward_quotes Time_quotes Love_quotes Cat_quotes Kitten_quotes Truth_quotes Forever_quotes End_quotes Jam_quotes Case_quotes Tomorrow_quotes Today_quotes Human_quotes

Albert_Speer

Technology and Individual Freedom

“Every country in the world today faces the danger of being terrorized by technology. Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology.”
  • Source: From the book "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer, published 1970 by Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-684-82949-4. Chapter 35, page 521.
Keywords: Country_quotes World_quotes Today_quotes Face_quotes Danger_quotes Terror_quotes Technology_quotes Essential_quotes Demand_quotes Individual_quotes Freedom_quotes Self-Aware_quotes Human_quotes Being_quotes Counterpoise_quotes

Max_Tegmark

Quantum Impact

“We virtually ignore the astonishing range of scientific and practical applications that quantum mechanics undergirds: today an estimated 30 percent of the U.S. gross national product is based on inventions made possible by quantum mechanics, from semiconductors in computer chips to lasers in compact-disc players, magnetic resonance imaging in hospitals, and much more.”
  • Source: Max Tegmark and John Archibald Wheeler; Scientific American, February 2001
Keywords: Virtual_quotes Ignore_quotes Astonishment_quotes Range_quotes Science_quotes Practical_quotes Application_quotes Quantum_quotes Mechanics_quotes Physics_quotes Undergird_quotes Today_quotes GDP_quotes Invention_quotes Possibility_quotes Semiconductor_quotes Computer_quotes Chip_quotes Laser_quotes CD_quotes Magnetic_quotes Resonance_quotes Image_quotes Hospital_quotes Estimate_quotes

John_Tukey

First Use of the Term Software

“Today the ‘software’ comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its ‘hardware’ of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.”
  • Source: John Wilder Tukey. A paper entitled "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics". The American Mathematical Monthly, volume 65, 1958. DOI: 10.2307/2310294.
Keywords: Today_quotes Software_quotes Comprise_quotes Careful_quotes Plan_quotes Interpretation_quotes Routine_quotes Compilation_quotes Aspect_quotes Automation_quotes Programming_quotes Importance_quotes Modern_quotes Calculator_quotes Hardware_quotes Tube_quotes Transistor_quotes Wire_quotes Tape_quotes

H_G_Wells

Statistical Training

“A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for anyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.”
  • Source: Wells, H. G. (1938). World Brain chap. II (The Brain Organization of the Modern World). London, UK: Methuen and Co. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/.
Keywords: Elementary_quotes Training_quotes Statistics_quotes Method_quotes Become_quotes Necessary_quotes Anyone_quotes Living_quotes World_quotes Today_quotes Reading_quotes Writing_quotes

Shoshana_Zuboff

Technology Leadership

“The questions that we face today are finally about leadership. Will there be leaders who are able to recognize the historical moment and the choices it presents? Will they find ways to create the organizational conditions in which new visions, new concepts, and a new language of workplace relations can emerge? Will they be able to create organizational innovations that can exploit the unique capacities of the new technology and thus mobilize their organization's productive potential to meet the heightened rigors of global competition? Will there be leaders who understand the crucial role that human beings from each organizational stratum can play in adding value to the production of goods and services? If not, we will be stranded in a new world with old solutions. We will suffer through the unintended consequences of change, because we have failed to understand this technology and how it differs from what came before.”
  • Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 12. ISBN:0465032125.
Keywords: Technology_quotes Leadership_quotes History_quotes Choice_quotes Organization_quotes Vision_quotes Innovation_quotes Workplace_quotes Language_quotes Exploitation_quotes Potential_quotes Competition_quotes Global_quotes Human_Resources_quotes Production_quotes Goods_quotes Services_quotes World_quotes Obsolescence_quotes Change_quotes Suffering_quotes Stranded_quotes Consequence_quotes Unintentional_quotes Failure_quotes Understanding_quotes Differences_quotes Question_quotes Today_quotes Present_quotes Find_quotes Create_quotes Condition_quotes Concept_quotes Relation_quotes Emerge_quotes Unique_quotes Capability_quotes New_quotes Mobilize_quotes Height_quotes Rigor_quotes Leader_quotes Crucial_quotes Role_quotes Human_quotes Stratum_quotes Play_quotes Add_quotes Value_quotes Old_quotes Solution_quotes
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