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Peter_Drucker
Weaknesses and Strengths
"A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths."
- Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 157.
- Keywords: Man_quotes Humanity_quotes People_quotes Appoint_quotes Manager_quotes Position_quotes Vision_quotes Human_quotes Weakness_quotes Strength_quotes
Dwight_D_Eisenhower
Long Lane of History
“During the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.”
- Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell address (17 January 1961).
- Keywords: Lane_quotes Long_quotes History_quotes America_quotes World_quotes Community_quotes Fear_quotes Hate_quotes Pride_quotes Confederation_quotes Trust_quotes Respect_quotes Equal_quotes Weakness_quotes Conference_quotes Table_quotes Negotiation_quotes Confidence_quotes Protection_quotes Moral_quotes Economics_quotes Military_quotes Frustration_quotes Abandon_quotes Agony_quotes Pain_quotes Battlefield_quotes
Brooks_Jackson and Kathleen_Hall_Jamieson
Psychological Experiments
“Psychological experiments have shown ... that humans tend to seek out even weak evidence to support their existing beliefs, and to ignore evidence that undercuts those beliefs. In the process, we apply stringent tests to evidence we don't want to hear, while letting slide uncritically into our minds any information that suits our needs.”
- Source: Brooks Jackson, As co-author with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, in unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007), 69-70.
- Keywords: Psychology_quotes Experiment_quotes Humanity_quotes Seek_quotes Weakness_quotes Evidence_quotes Support_quotes Status_Quo_quotes Belief_quotes Testing_quotes Hearing_quotes Critical_quotes Mind_quotes Information_quotes Suitability_quotes Need_quotes Exist_quotes Ignore_quotes Undercut_quotes Stringent_quotes
Pierre-Simon_Laplace
System of Nature
“The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence that at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective position, motions, and general affects of all these entities at any time in the past or future. Physical astronomy, the branch of knowledge that does the greatest honor to the human mind, gives us an idea, albeit imperfect, of what such an intelligence would be. The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity be given by observation for any moment in time. Man owes that advantage to the power of the instrument he employs, and to the small number of relations that it embraces in its calculations. But ignorance of the different causes involved in the production of events, as well as their complexity, taken together with the imperfection of analysis, prevents our reaching the same certainty about the vast majority of phenomena. Thus there are things that are uncertain for us, things more or less probable, and we seek to compensate for the impossibility of knowing them by determining their different degrees of likelihood. So it was that we owe to the weakness of the human mind one of the most delicate and ingenious of mathematical theories, the science of chance or probability.”
- Source: Pierre-Simon Laplace, 'Recherches, 1º, sur l'Intégration des Équations Différentielles aux Différences Finies, et sur leur Usage dans la Théorie des Hasards' (1773, published 1776). In Oeuvres complètes de Laplace, 14 Vols. (1843-1912), Vol. 8, 144-5, trans. Charles Coulston Gillispie, Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science (1997), 26.
- Keywords: State_quotes Present_quotes System_quotes Nature_quotes Consequence_quotes Moment_quotes Precede_quotes Conceive_quotes Intelligence_quotes Instant_quotes Comprehension_quotes Relationship_quotes Universe_quotes Position_quotes Motion_quotes Causality_quotes Time_quotes Past_quotes Future_quotes Astronomy_quotes Knowledge_quotes Humanity_quotes Mind_quotes Idea_quotes Imperfect_quotes Law_quotes Celestial_quotes Body_quotes Mass_quotes Distance_quotes Analysis_quotes Determine_quotes Century_quotes Mathematics_quotes Velocity_quotes Observation_quotes Advantage_quotes Power_quotes Instrument_quotes Calculation_quotes Ignorance_quotes Cause_quotes Production_quotes Event_quotes Complexity_quotes Certainty_quotes Majority_quotes Phenomena_quotes Probability_quotes Impossibility_quotes Likelihood_quotes Weakness_quotes Theory_quotes Chance_quotes
Alan_Perlis
Command Language
“A good system can't have a weak command language.”
- Source: Perlis, A. J. (1982). Special Feature: Epigrams on programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 17(9), 7–13. http://doi.org/10.1145/947955.1083808
- Keywords: Good_quotes System_quotes Weakness_quotes Command_quotes Language_quotes
Claude_Shannon
Computer Capacities
“It is not being suggested that we should design the strategy in our own image. Rather it should be matched to the capacities and weakness of the computer.”
- Source: From the paper “Programming a Computer for Playing Chess” by Claude Shannon, published in 1950 in “London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science”, volume 41, issue 314, Series 7. March.
- Keywords: Design_quotes Strategy_quotes Image_quotes Match_quotes Capacity_quotes Weakness_quotes Computer_quotes
Baruch_Spinoza
Weak Mind Pain
“When the mind contemplates its own weakness, it feels pain thereat.”
- 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 III, Prop. LV.
- Keywords: Mind_quotes Weakness_quotes Pain_quotes Contemplate_quotes Feel_quotes
