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Fred_Brooks

Most Useful Service for Client

“The most useful service I was performing for my client was helping him decide what he really wanted.”
  • 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.
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Henry_Ford

Any Color

“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
  • 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 IV.
Keywords: Customer_quotes Car_quotes Paint_quotes Color_quotes Want_quotes Black_quotes

Faster Horse

“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
  • Source: Henry Ford as reported by his great-grandson William Clay ‘Bill’ Ford Jr. in an investor conference call on 2006-01-23. Transcript of Q4 2005 Ford Motor Company Earnings Conference Call, key Speaker Bill Ford, Chairman & CEO, Ford Motor Company, Congressional Quarterly Transcriptions (NewsBank Access World News).
Keywords: Ask_quotes Customer_quotes Want_quotes Say_quotes Faster_quotes Horse_quotes Requirements_quotes

Donald_C_Gause

Want Problems Solved

“Not too many people, in the final analysis, really want their problems solved.”
  • Source: Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is by Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
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Know What They Want

“In spite of appearances, people seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for.”
  • Source: Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is by Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
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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.
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Stephen_Hawking

Aliens

“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. … We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.”
  • Source: Stephen Hawking as quoted in “Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens” at BBC News 2010-04-25, ‘Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking’ (2010).
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Tony_Hoare

All Problems Technical

“Basically, all problems are technical. If you know what you want to do and you have the necessary technical background, there is no point in making a great management problem out of it. Obviously, a certain amount of resource control and personnel work has to go on but that’s all. On the other hand, you might have a task which is difficult in that you don’t know what you have to do, and that even if you did you wouldn’t know how to do it. Since this is a very difficult task you can start out with the hypothesis that it will take a great number of people. Following down this slippery slope of reasoning, as soon as you have a very large number of people you have a very large management problem. But it all originated out of the fact that you didn’t know what you were doing, or how to do it.”
  • Source: C.A.R.Hoare in Ercoli, P., Bauer, F. L., Aron, J. D., & Hoare, C. A. R. (1970). Software Engineering Techniques: Report on a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27th to 31 October 1969. (J. N. Buxton & B. Randell, Eds.). Retrieved from http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1969.PDF.
Keywords: Problem_quotes Technology_quotes Knowledge_quotes Management_quotes Resource_quotes Control_quotes Personnel_quotes Work_quotes Difficulty_quotes Hypothesis_quotes Effort_quotes Slippery_quotes Slope_quotes Reason_quotes Large_quotes Ignorance_quotes Want_quotes Necessary_quotes Background_quotes Task_quotes People_quotes Originate_quotes Fact_quotes

Geoffrey_Jefferson

No Mechanism Could Feel

“Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain - that is, not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel (and not merely artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at its successes, grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made miserable by its mistakes, be charmed by sex, be angry or depressed when it cannot get what it wants.”
  • Source: Geoffrey Jefferson delivering The Lister Oration at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 1949-06-09. Published in the British Medical Journal of 1949-06-25, volume 1, issue 4616, pages 1105-1110. DOI 10.1136/bmj.1.4616.1105.
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Steve_Jobs

Show_Them

“We have a lot of customers, and we have a lot of research into our installed base. We also watch industry trends pretty carefully. But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why a lot of people at Apple get paid a lot of money, because they're supposed to be on top of these things.”
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William_S_Knudsen

Factory

“If you wanted to build a factory, the thing to do was to make a layout of your machinery, and the flow of material, and then build a building around it.”
  • Source: Words spoken by William S. Knudsen as recorded in the book “Knudsen: A Biography” written by Norman Beasley. Published in 2017 by Papamoa Press. Originally published in 1947. Page 54. Online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Knudsen/OS5BDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 (retrieved 2024-05-19). Also recorded in the book “Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II”. Written by Arthur Herman. Published in 2012 by Random House, New York, NY. ISBN: 9780679604631 (ebook). Page 22.
Keywords: Want_quotes Build_quotes Factory_quotes Do_quotes Layout_quotes Machinery_quotes Flow_quotes Material_quotes Building_quotes Around_quotes Planning_quotes

Nicholas_Kristof

Confirmation Bias

“There’s pretty good evidence that we generally don’t truly want good information — but rather information that confirms our prejudices. We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions, but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber.”
  • Source: Nicholas D. Kristof, In New York Times (18 Mar 2009).
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Niccolò_Machiavelli

Advice

“A prince, therefore, should always take advice, but only when he wants it, not when others want to give it.”
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Steven_Pinker

Version of the Truth

“Our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth... Conflicts of interest are inherent to the human condition, and we are apt to want our version of the truth, rather than the truth itself, to prevail.”
  • Source: Steven Pinker (1997). How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06973-0; eISBN 978-0-393-06973-0. Chapter 5 Section: Ecological Intelligence.
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Herbert_Schildt

C and C++

“C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.”
  • Source: Herbert Schildt. In the book entitled C++: The Complete Reference. Written by Herbert Schildt. Fourth edition. Published by McGraw-Hill in 2003. ISBN 978-0072226805. Page 8.
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Saul-Paul_Sirag

Heart of Science

“The essential point in science is not a complicated mathematical formalism or a ritualized experimentation. Rather the heart of science is a kind of shrewd honesty that springs from really wanting to know what the hell is going on!”
  • Source: Words of Saul-Paul Sirag as reported in the book “Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics” written by Nick Herbert, page 268, published by Doubleday in 1985. ISBN 978-0385187046.
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Gerald_Weinberg

Want Problems Solved

“Not too many people, in the final analysis, really want their problems solved.”
  • Source: Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is by Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
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Know What They Want

“In spite of appearances, people seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for.”
  • Source: Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is by Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
Keywords: Appearance_quotes People_quotes Knowledge_quotes Want_quotes Give_quotes Ask_quotes Requirements_quotes
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