Wrong quotes
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Contents
- 1 John_Stewart_Bell
- 2 Jeremy_Bentham
- 3 Arthur_Bloch
- 4 Niels_Bohr
- 5 George_E_P_Box
- 6 Fred_Brooks
- 7 Francis_Chisholm
- 8 Arthur_C_Clarke
- 9 William_Kingdon_Clifford
- 10 Stephen_Covey
- 11 Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra
- 12 Peter_Drucker
- 13 English_Proverbs
- 14 Michael_Faraday
- 15 Leon_Festinger
- 16 Eugene_Grace
- 17 Stuart_Hameroff
- 18 Douglas_Hofstadter
- 19 Grace_Hopper
- 20 Brooks_Jackson and Kathleen_Hall_Jamieson
- 21 Carl_Jung
- 22 Henry_Louis_Mencken
- 23 Edward_A_Murphy
- 24 Alan_Perlis
- 25 Karl_Popper
- 26 Bertrand_Russell
- 27 Carl_Sagan
- 28 Mark_Seemann
- 29 John_Tukey
- 30 Edward_Yourdon
John_Stewart_Bell
Clearly Right and Wrong
“Bohr was inconsistent, unclear, willfully obscure and right. Einstein was consistent, clear, down-to-earth and wrong.”
- Source: John Stewart Bell, quoted in Graham Farmelo, "Random Acts of Science", The New York Times (June 11, 2010). Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/books/review/Farmelo-t.html retrieved 2024.
Jeremy_Bentham
Greatest Happiness
“It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
- Source: Bentham, Jeremy. 'A Comment on the Commentaries and a Fragment on Government', edited by J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart. London: The Athlone Press. 1977. p. 393. Originally published in 1823 in London.
- Keywords: Greatest_quotes Happiness_quotes Number_quotes Measure_quotes Right_quotes Wrong_quotes People_quotes Utilitarianism_quotes
Arthur_Bloch
Murphy's Law
“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
- 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: Engineering_quotes Anything_quotes Can_quotes Go_quotes Wrong_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes Law_quotes
Murphy's Law Corollary 3
“If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.”
- 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.
- See Also:
- Keywords: Possibility_quotes Several_quotes Go_quotes Wrong_quotes One_quotes Cause_quotes Most_quotes Damage_quotes Law_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes
Murphy's Law Corollary 4
"If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop."
- 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.
- See Also:
Scott's First Law
“No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.”
- Source: Attributed to Scott, 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 14.
- Notes: Who Scott was has not been reliably identified.
- See Also:
- Keywords: Murphy(topic)_quotes Law_quotes Matter_quotes Go_quotes Wrong_quotes Probably_quotes Look_quotes Right_quotes
Finagle's First Law
“If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.”
- Source: Attributed to a fictional character named Finagle, 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 15.
- Notes: Often attributed to a fictional character named Finagle, its true origin remains uncertain and likely derived from multiple sources. See https://www.devx.com/terms/finagles-law/.
- Keywords: Murphy(topic)_quotes Law_quotes Experiment_quotes Work_quotes Go_quotes Wrong_quotes Something_quotes
Niels_Bohr
No Quantum World
“There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.”
- Source: The words of Niels Bohr as reported by Aage Petersen in his article ‘The Philosophy of Niels Bohr’ published in the journal Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1963, volume XIX, number 7. Available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=DgcAAAAAMBAJ retrieved 2024.
George_E_P_Box
All Models Wrong
“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.”
- Source: George E.P. Box, Co-author with Norman R. Draper, In George E.P. Box and Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (1987), 74.
- Keywords: Model_quotes Approximation_quotes Usefulness_quotes Error_quotes Wrong_quotes Practical_quotes Question_quotes
Models are Approximations
“...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind...”
- Source: George E.P. Box [Co-author with Norman R. Draper], In George E.P. Box, Norman R. Draper, Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses (2nd ed. 2007), 414.
- Keywords: Model_quotes Approximation_quotes Error_quotes Usefulness_quotes Wrong_quotes Nature_quotes Mind_quotes
Fred_Brooks
Waterfall Model
“The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful, we must outgrow it.”
- 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 34.
Francis_Chisholm
Chisholm's 1st Law of Human Interaction
“Chisholm's 1st Law of Human Interaction. If anything can go wrong, it will.
Corollary: If anything just can’t go wrong, it will anyway.”
- Source: From the essay “The Chisholm Effect” by Francis P. Chisholm, included in the anthology “A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age” edited by Robert A. Baker, published by Prentice Hall in 1982. ISBN: 0138526087, ISBN: 978-0138526085.
- Keywords: Law_quotes Chisholm(topic)_quotes Human_quotes Interaction_quotes Anything_quotes Go_quotes Wrong_quotes Anyway_quotes
Chisholm's 2nd Law of Human Interaction
“Chisholm's 2nd Law of Human Interaction. When things are going well, something will go wrong.
Corollary 1: When things just can’t get any worse, they will.
Corollary 2: Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.”
- Source: From the essay “The Chisholm Effect” by Francis P. Chisholm, included in the anthology “A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age” edited by Robert A. Baker, published by Prentice Hall in 1982. ISBN: 0138526087, ISBN: 978-0138526085.
Arthur_C_Clarke
Clarke's First Law
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
- Source: Arthur C. Clarke in his book ‘Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible’, published 1962 by HMH Publishing, Revised edition, within chapter 2 ‘Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination’.
William_Kingdon_Clifford
Insufficient Evidence
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it-- the life of that man is one long sin against mankind."
- Source: William Kingdon Clifford, from the paper entitled 'The Ethics of Belief', published in the Contemporary Review in 1877. Online at http://people.brandeis.edu
/~teuber /Clifford_ethics.pdf retrieved 2023.
- Keywords: Wrong_quotes Belief_quotes Insufficient_quotes Evidence_quotes Doubt_quotes Mind_quotes Ignorance_quotes Question_quotes Discussion_quotes Sin_quotes Evil_quotes Humanity_quotes Summarize_quotes Teach_quotes Learning_quotes Persuasion_quotes Suppression_quotes Avoid_quotes Reading_quotes Book_quotes Company_quotes Men_quotes Man_quotes Impious_quotes Easy_quotes Disturb_quotes Life_quotes Mankind_quotes
Stephen_Covey
Wrong Wall
"It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall."
- Source: From the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind, page 98, published 1988 by Free Press: A Division of Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
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
/users /EWD /transcriptions /EWD10xx /EWD1036.html
Peter_Drucker
Drucker's Law
“Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy's Law: 'If anything can go wrong, it will.' But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker's law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'”
- Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 681.
English_Proverbs
Laws of Philosophy
“The first law of philosophy: For every philosopher, there exists an equal and opposite philosopher. The second law of philosophy: They're both wrong.”
- Source: Shared in chapter 2 of the book "The Universe - Solved!"; written by Jim Elvidge; Published in 2007 by Alternate Theories Press; ISBN 978-1-4243-3626-5.
- Keywords: First_quotes Law_quotes Philosophy_quotes Philosopher_quotes Existing_quotes Equal_quotes Opposite_quotes Wrong_quotes
Michael_Faraday
Assertion Duties
“A man who makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it. He has no right to throw the onus on others, declaring it their duly to prove him right or wrong. His duty is to demonstrate the truth of that which he asserts, or to cease from asserting. The men he calls upon to consider and judge have enough to do with themselves, in the examination, correction, or verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.”
- Source: Lecturer=Michael Faraday; Lecture/Title=“Observations on Mental Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain Before H.R.H. Prince Albert”; Date=1854-05-06; Book/Title=“Lectures on Education”; Publication/Date=1855; Book/Title=“Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”; Publication/Date=1859); Page=486.
- Keywords: Assertion_quotes Conclusion_quotes Investigation_quotes Rights_quotes Duty_quotes Proof_quotes Truth_quotes Examination_quotes Correction_quotes Verification_quotes Opinion_quotes World_quotes Thinking_quotes Theory_quotes Mind_quotes Science_quotes Self-Examination_quotes Criticism_quotes Success_quotes Suggestion_quotes Hope_quotes Wish_quotes Man_quotes Case_quotes Competent_quotes Throw_quotes Onus_quotes Right_quotes Wrong_quotes Demonstrate_quotes Men_quotes Consider_quotes Judge_quotes View_quotes Crush_quotes Silent_quotes Secret_quotes Preliminary_quotes Realize_quotes
Leon_Festinger
Belief
“Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief and he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor for convincing and converting other people to his view.”
- Source: Leon Festinger, In When Prophecy Fails (1956), 3.
Eugene_Grace
Initiative
“The man who has in him the stuff of which success is made is never afraid to accept responsibilities; then, when he gets responsibility, he doesn't regard it lightly; nor does he ever seek to shirk the consequences or attempt to blame anyone else when anything goes wrong. My chief difficulty in building up our huge organization is to find men able and willing to take and discharge responsibilities. So many men can only go to the point of doing routine duties; when given tasks requiring initiative and readiness to shoulder responsibility, they continually run to the boss to get instructions. I am constantly on the lookout for fellows who are not afraid to use their own judgment, and, although they may make quite a few mistakes, yet they at least show executive potentialities... Of course there must be more than willingness to accept responsibility and to exercise initiative; willingness must be accompanied by ability, knowledge, and the judgment which can come only from having thoroughly mastered one's business.”
- Source: Eugene Grace quotes in the article written by B. C. Forbes entitled 'Gene Grace - Whose Story Reads Like a Fairy Tale', published in 'The American Magazine', 1920, volume 90, Page 84. Online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Magazine/qrM7AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 accessed 2021-02-09.
- Keywords: Man_quotes Stuff_quotes Success_quotes Fear_quotes Responsibility_quotes Regard_quotes Seek_quotes Consequence_quotes Attempt_quotes Blame_quotes Wrong_quotes Difficulty_quotes Build_quotes Organization_quotes Find_quotes Ability_quotes Willing_quotes Routine_quotes Duty_quotes Task_quotes Initiative_quotes Continuous_quotes Run_quotes Boss_quotes Instruction_quotes Lookout_quotes Judgment_quotes Knowledge_quotes Master_quotes Business_quotes Mistake_quotes Executive_quotes Potential_quotes Shirk_quotes
Stuart_Hameroff
Brain Neurons
“Well I used to think as other people do that the brain is a computer and I think instead, as I have said before, it's more of a multi-scale hierarchical system. More like a musical system in some sense. I'd refer to it as a quantum orchestra. Because I think the computational metaphor doesn't work because, well it works to a point but it treats neurons as simple on/off switches and that's an insult to neurons... If you go inside neurons there's all this interesting, I hate to use the word complex because I think complexity is often the last refuge of the bewildered. Just say it's complex and that explains everything which I think is wrong. But you have all this structure, these microtubules doing all this interesting quantum stuff and quantum computation reducing by OR [Orchestrated Objective Reduction/Orch OR] is not the kind of computation I was disillusioned with. So, I'd say that one thing is that the brain is a multi-scale hierarchal system more like music than a classical computer.”
- Source: Stuart Hameroff speaking in the YouTube video entitled “Sir Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff: Collapsing a theory of quantum consciousness? Part 2 (248)” on the channel entitled “Dr Brian Keating” streamed live 2022-08-05, retrieved 2024-04-17 from <https://www.youtube.com/live/OoDi856wLPM?si=XJrLm0AVUIl_dECG>.
- Keywords: Think_quotes People_quotes Brain_quotes Computer_quotes Multi-Scale_quotes Hierarchical_quotes Music_quotes Quantum_quotes System_quotes Sense_quotes Orchestra_quotes Metaphor_quotes Work_quotes Point_quotes Treat_quotes Neuron_quotes Simple_quotes On-Off_quotes Switch_quotes Insult_quotes Inside_quotes Interest_quotes Hate_quotes Complex_quotes Last_quotes Refuge_quotes Bewilder_quotes Say_quotes Explain_quotes Everything_quotes Wrong_quotes Structure_quotes Microtubule_quotes Stuff_quotes Computation_quotes Reduce_quotes Orch-OR_quotes Kind_quotes Disillusion_quotes Classical_quotes
Douglas_Hofstadter
Thinking At A Different Level
“It is when something goes wrong that it is important to be able to think on different levels.”
- 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 10. Page 294.
- Keywords: Wrong_quotes Importance_quotes Think_quotes Level_quotes Differences_quotes Something_quotes Go_quotes
Limits of Deduction
“In many real-life situations, deductive reasoning is inappropriate, not because it would give wrong answers, but because there are too many correct but irrelevant statements which can be made, there are just too many things to take into account simultaneously for reasoning alone to be sufficient.”
- 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 17. Page 560.
Grace_Hopper
Bugs
“From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”
- Source: Grace Hopper as quoted in Time magazine (16 April 1984).
- Notes: On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark II experimental computer at Harvard in 1947. Note that the term "bug" was in use by people in several technical disciplines long before that; Thomas Edison used the term, and it was common AT&T parlance in the 1920s to refer to bugs in the wires. Hopper is credited with popularizing the term's use in the computing field.
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- Keywords: Error_quotes Mistake_quotes Bug_quotes Wrong_quotes Computer_quotes
Brooks_Jackson and Kathleen_Hall_Jamieson
Fact Driven
“Humans are not by nature the fact-driven, rational beings we like to think we are. We get the facts wrong more often than we think we do. And we do so in predictable ways: we engage in wishful thinking. We embrace information that supports our beliefs and reject evidence that challenges them. Our minds tend to take shortcuts, which require some effort to avoid ... [and] more often than most of us would imagine, the human mind operates in ways that defy logic.”
- Source: Brooks Jackson, As co-author with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, in unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007), 69.
- Keywords: Humanity_quotes Nature_quotes Fact_quotes Reason_quotes Wrong_quotes Bias_quotes Prediction_quotes Thinking_quotes Wish_quotes Information_quotes Belief_quotes Rejection_quotes Evidence_quotes Challenge_quotes Mind_quotes Shortcut_quotes Effort_quotes Avoidance_quotes Imagination_quotes Logic_quotes Support_quotes
Carl_Jung
The Path
“There is only one way and that is your way. You seek the path? I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you. May each go his own way. I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children.”
- Source: Written by Carl G. Jung in ‘The Red Book’, also known as ‘Liber Novus’, which was originally written from 1914 to 1930. It was first published in 2009 by W. W. Norton in a facsimile edition, complete with an English translation. The edition used here is the book ‘The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition’, written by C. G. Jung, edited with an introduction by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani; published by W. W. Norton in 2012; ISBN 978-0393089080; Page 125.
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Henry_Louis_Mencken
Explanations
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”
- Source: In the article entitled 'The Divine Afflatus' by Henry Louis Mencken, published in the New York Evening Mail, 16 November 1917.
Edward_A_Murphy
Murphy's Law
Popular Version: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” Original Version First Report: “If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way” Original Version Second Report: "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will."
- 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 publish in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288.
- Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the article “The Science of Murphy’s Law” written by Robert A. J. Matthews, published in 'Scientific America, volume 276 number 4, April 1997, DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0497-88.
- Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the book “The Making of a Scientist” by Anne Roe, published in 1953 by Dodd and Mead, New York, NY. ISBN 10: 0837171512. ISBN 13: 9780837171517.
- Notes: An idea expressed by Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. in 1949 in reference to rocket sled engineering work.
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Alan_Perlis
Failure and Success
“Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”
- Source: Perlis, A. J. (1982). Special Feature: Epigrams on programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 17(9), 7–13. http://doi.org/10.1145/947955.1083808
Karl_Popper
Strict Proof
“If you insist on strict proof (or strict disproof) in the empirical sciences, you will never benefit from experience, and never learn from it how wrong you are.”
- Source: Popper, K. R. (2005). The Logic of Scientific Discovery | 1935 (1935/Epub ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
Bertrand_Russell
Exact Science Approximate
“Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Every careful measurement in science is always given with the probable error ... every observer admits that he is likely wrong and knows about how much wrong he is likely to be.”
- Source: Bertrand Russell, In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 42
- Keywords: Paradox_quotes Seem_quotes Exact_quotes Science_quotes Domination_quotes Idea_quotes Approximation_quotes Humanity_quotes Truth_quotes Safe_quotes Inference_quotes Inexact_quotes Careful_quotes Measurement_quotes Probability_quotes Error_quotes Observation_quotes Wrong_quotes Knowledge_quotes Man_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.
Mark_Seemann
Stroll
“I’ve lost count of the number of times I return to a problem after a stroll, only to realize that I’ve been thinking about it the wrong way. If walking about for a few minutes isn’t enough, try asking for help. If you have a colleague to bother, do that.”
- Source: Mark Seemann, “Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering”. Published in 2021 by Pearson Education, Kindle Edition, ISBN: 978-0-13-746440-1. Page 239.
John_Tukey
Right Question
“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”
- Source: John Tukey. The future of data analysis. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33 (1), (1962), page 13.
- Keywords: Better_quotes Approximation_quotes Answer_quotes Right_quotes Question_quotes Vagueness_quotes Exact_quotes Wrong_quotes Precision_quotes
Approximately Right
“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.”
- Source: John Tukey. John Wilder Tukey, David Roxbee Cox, Henry I. Braun (1994). “The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Philosophy and principles of data analysis, 1949-1964”
- Keywords: Approximation_quotes Right_quotes Exact_quotes Wrong_quotes
Edward_Yourdon
Better Programming Languages
“Better coding techniques may do nothing more than help you arrive at a disaster sooner than before. Better programming languages, used without anything else, may be just what your programmers need to develop a brilliant solution to the wrong problem.”
- Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 2, section 2.1, page 27.
