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Contents
- 1 Marcus_Aurelius
- 2 Peter_Drucker
- 3 Robert_M_Graham
- 4 Stephen_Hawking
- 5 Gerald_Holton
- 6 John_F_Kennedy
- 7 John_Maynard_Keynes
- 8 Abraham_Lincoln
- 9 Thomas_Robert_Malthus
- 10 Henry_Louis_Mencken
- 11 Ipek_Ozkaya
- 12 Pearl_and_Mackenzie
- 13 Alan_Perlis
- 14 Daniel_H_Pink
- 15 Michael_Polanyi
- 16 George_Sarton
- 17 Robert_Louis_Stevenson
- 18 Mark_Twain
- 19 Gerald_Weinberg
- 20 Thornton_Wilder
- 21 E_O_Wilson
- 22 Stephen_Wolfram
- 23 Edward_Yourdon
Marcus_Aurelius
Be Good For Something
“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something, while you live and it is in your power.”
- Source: From the book “Meditations” written by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, published by Walter Scott, London, England, in 1887. Found in book IV paragraph 17. Originally written circa 170 CE. Retrieved from https://ia804703.us.archive.org/26/items/meditationsofmar00marc/meditationsofmar00marc_bw.pdf 2024-03-02.
- Keywords: Year_quotes Throw_quotes Away_quotes Death_quotes Elbow_quotes Good_quotes Something_quotes Live_quotes Power_quotes
Peter_Drucker
Big University Relics
“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care? And for the middle-class family, college education for their children is as much of a necessity as is medical care — without it the kids have no future. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.”
- Source: Peter Drucker, “Seeing Things as They Really Are”, Forbes (March 10, 1997)
- Keywords:Year_quotes Big_quotes University_quotes Education_quotes Relic_quotes Survival_quotes Large_quotes Change_quotes First_quotes Printing_quotes Book_quotes Cost_quotes High_quotes Rise_quotes Fast_quotes Health_quotes Care_quotes Middle_quotes Class_quotes Family_quotes College_quotes Children_quotes Necessary_quotes Medicine_quotes Future_quotes Total_quotes Control_quotes Expense_quotes Visibility_quotes Improve_quotes Content_quotes Quality_quotes System_quotes Rapid_quotes Become_quotes Untenable_quotes Uncontrollable_quotes Deep_quotes Crisis_quotes Campus_quotes
Knowledge Workers
“The newly emerging dominant group is 'knowledge workers.' The very term was unknown forty years ago. (I coined it in a 1959 book, Landmarks of Tomorrow.) By the end of this century knowledge workers will make up a third or more of the work force in the United States-- as large a proportion as manufacturing workers ever made up, except in wartime. The majority of them will be paid at least as well as, or better than, manufacturing workers ever were. And the new jobs offer much greater opportunities.”
- Source: Peter Drucker, “The Age of Social Transformation”, The Atlantic Monthly; Nov. 1994; Vol. 274, No. 5. p. 53-80.
- Keywords: Emergence_quotes Domination_quotes Group_quotes Knowledge_quotes Worker_quotes Term_quotes Unknown_quotes Year_quotes Coin_quotes Book_quotes Tomorrow_quotes End_quotes Century_quotes Work_quotes Force_quotes United_States_quotes Large_quotes Proportion_quotes Manufacture_quotes Wartime_quotes Majority_quotes Pay_quotes Better_quotes Job_quotes Great_quotes Opportunity_quotes
Robert_M_Graham
Wright Brothers Construction
“We tend to go on for years, with tremendous investments to find that the system, which was not well understood to start with, does not work as anticipated. We build systems like the Wright brothers built airplanes — build the whole thing, push it off the cliff, let it crash, and start over again.”
- Source: Robert M. Graham 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 10.
Stephen_Hawking
Cosmology
“Cosmology used to be considered a pseudoscience and the preserve of physicists who might have done some useful work in their earlier years but who had gone mystic in their dotage.”
- Source: Stephen Hawking in his book “The Nature of Space and Time”, Chapter Five, page 75. Published by Princeton University Press in 1996.
Gerald_Holton
Speculation
“...guided at that moment by a speculation below the level of consciousness, a result of an intimate knowledge... built up during his years of intense study, discussions, and experimentation.”
- Source: Gerald Holton, written 2004-03-31, the article entitled “Enrico Fermi and the Miracle of the Two Tables” published to the “Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard” repository. Retrieved 2024-04-02 from https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/41012982/Fermi%20HUP04.pdf.
- Note: The article is discussing Enrico Fermi's process to solve a physics experimentation problem that came to be known as the “Miricle of the Two Tables”.
John_F_Kennedy
Resources
“Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence, thus condemning humanity to an indefinite future of misery and poverty. We can now begin to hope and, I believe, know that Malthus was expressing not a law of nature, but merely the limitation then of scientific and social wisdom. The truth or falsity of his prediction will depend now, with the tools we have, on our own actions, now and in the years to come.”
- Source: John F. Kennedy, From Address to the Centennial Convocation of the National Academy of Sciences (22 Oct 1963), 'A Century of Scientific Conquest'. Online at The American Presidency Project.
- Keywords: Century_quotes Humanity_quotes Resource_quotes Limitation_quotes Subsistence_quotes Condemnation_quotes Indefinite_quotes Future_quotes Misery_quotes Poverty_quotes Hope_quotes Belief_quotes Law_quotes Nature_quotes Science_quotes Wisdom_quotes Society_quotes Truth_quotes Falsehood_quotes Prediction_quotes Dependency_quotes Tool_quotes Action_quotes Scarcity_quotes Abundance_quotes Malthus(topic)_quotes Argue_quotes Man_quotes Express_quotes Year_quotes Malthusian_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
Abraham_Lincoln
Created Equal
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
- Source: Abraham Lincoln, spoken in the Gettysburg Address on 1863-11-19 at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Thomas_Robert_Malthus
Population and Subsistence
“I think I may fairly make two postulata. First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary, and will remain nearly in its present state... Assuming then my postulata as granted, I say, that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio... This implies a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty must fall somewhere; and must necessarily be severely felt by a large portion of mankind... The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years... Consequently, if the premises are just, the argument is conclusive against the perfectibility of the mass of mankind.”
- Source: Thomas Robert Malthus. The essay: “An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Goodwin, M. Condorcet and Other Writers”. Originally published: 1798. Edition: First. Publisher: J. Johnson. Location: London, England. Chapter: 1. Retrieved From: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Population>. Retrieval Date: 2024-04-03.
- Notes: The dire predictions of Malthus have not yet been fulfilled. This is primarily due to errors in his initial assumptions (which are properly identified), not in errors in his logic. The first assumption (or postulatum) is that food production increases arithmetically (linearly). But historically, food production has increased geometrically (exponentially) due to advances in mechanical technologies and biotechnologies. The second assumption assumes passion and birth rates are directly correlated. However, technological advances in birth control, cultural advances in women's rights, and rising prosperity (which lowers birth rates) have falsified this assumption. Additional questionable assumptions are also made which are not initially specified.
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- Keywords: Think_quotes Fair_quotes Assumption_quotes Postulate_quotes Food_quotes Existence_quotes Passion_quotes Sex_quotes Man_quotes Woman_quotes Remain_quotes Grant_quotes Power_quotes Population_quotes Indefinite_quotes Greater_quotes Earth_quotes World_quotes Production_quotes Subsistence_quotes Uncheck_quotes Increase_quotes Geometric_quotes Exponential_quotes Ratio_quotes Arithmetic_quotes Linear_quotes Imply_quotes Strong_quotes Constant_quotes Operate_quotes Check_quotes Difficult_quotes Fall_quotes Necessary_quotes Severe_quotes Feel_quotes Large_quotes Portion_quotes Mankind_quotes Humanity_quotes Germ_quotes Contain_quotes Spot_quotes Ample_quotes Room_quotes Expand_quotes Fill_quotes Course_quotes Few_quotes Thousand_quotes Year_quotes Premises_quotes Argument_quotes Consequence_quotes Conclusive_quotes Against_quotes Perfectibility_quotes Mass_quotes Hunger_quotes Starvation_quotes Malthusian_quotes
Henry_Louis_Mencken
Morality
“It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.”
- Source: Written by Henry Louis Mencken in the book 'The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche' published by Unwin in 1908 in London, England.
- Keywords: Morality_quotes Burn_quotes Book_quotes Ancient_quotes Sage_quotes Halt_quotes Freedom_quotes Inquiry_quotes Gold_quotes Age_quotes Credibility_quotes Imbecile_quotes Faith_quotes Code_quotes Fixed_quotes Theology_quotes Rob_quotes Humanity_quotes Year_quotes Alchemy_quotes Witchcraft_quotes Sacerdotalism_quotes Waste_quotes
Ipek_Ozkaya
Ethics Courses
“We need to make ethics courses mandatory every year of the curriculum.”
- Source: Ipek Ozkaya, “Application of Large Language Models to Software Engineering Tasks: Opportunities, Risks, and Implications,” in IEEE Software, volume 40, number 3, pages 4-8, May-June 2023, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2023.3248401.
- Keywords: Make_quotes Ethics_quotes Course_quotes Mandatory_quotes Every_quotes Year_quotes Curriculum_quotes
Pearl_and_Mackenzie
Super Evolutionary Speedup
“Over millions of years, eagles and owls have evolved truly amazing eyesight — yet they’ve never devised eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes, or night-vision goggles. Humans have produced these miracles in a matter of centuries. I call this phenomenon the ‘super-evolutionary speedup.’”
- Source: Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie in “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect”. Published by Basic Books of New York, NY in 2018. Chapter 1, page 25. ISBN 978-0465097616 (ebook).
- Keywords: Million_quotes Year_quotes Eagle_quotes Owl_quotes Evolve_quotes Eyesight_quotes Eyeglass_quotes Microscope_quotes Telescope_quotes Night_quotes Vision_quotes Goggle_quotes Human_quotes Produce_quotes Miracle_quotes Century_quotes Phenomenon_quotes Super_quotes Evolution_quotes Speedup_quotes
Alan_Perlis
God and AI
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
- 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: Year_quotes Artificial_Intelligence_quotes Belief_quotes God_quotes
Daniel_H_Pink
Motivation 1.0
“In our very early days — I mean very early days, say, fifty thousand years ago — the underlying assumption about human behavior was simple and true. We were trying to survive. From roaming the Savannah to gather food to scrambling for the bushes when a saber-toothed tiger approached, that drive guided most of our behavior. Call this early operating system Motivation 1.0.”
- Source: Daniel H. Pink (2009). Drive. New York, NY: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781101524381. Chapter 1.
- Keywords: Motivation_quotes Early_quotes Day_quotes Year_quotes Underlie_quotes Assumption_quotes Human_quotes Behavior_quotes Simplicity_quotes True_quotes Try_quotes Survival_quotes Roam_quotes Savannah_quotes Gather_quotes Food_quotes Scramble_quotes Bush_quotes Saber-Tooth_quotes Tiger_quotes Approach_quotes Drive_quotes Guide_quotes Operating_System_quotes Prehistoric_quotes
Michael_Polanyi
Scientific Method Elucidation
“Almost every major systematic error which has deluded men for thousands of years relied on practical experience. Horoscopes, incantations, oracles, magic, witchcraft, the cures of witch doctors and of medical practitioners before the advent of modern medicine, were all firmly established through the centuries in the eyes of the public by their supposed practical successes. The scientific method was devised precisely for the purpose of elucidating the nature of things under more carefully controlled conditions and by more rigorous criteria than are present in the situations created by practical problems.”
- Source: Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (1958), 183.
- Keywords: Major_quotes System_quotes Error_quotes Delusion_quotes Humanity_quotes Year_quotes Practical_quotes Experience_quotes Horoscope_quotes Incantation_quotes Oracle_quotes Magic_quotes Witchcraft_quotes Cure_quotes Witch-Doctor_quotes Medical_quotes Practitioner_quotes Modern_quotes Medicine_quotes Firm_quotes Establish_quotes Century_quotes Eye_quotes Public_quotes Suppose_quotes Success_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Devise_quotes Precision_quotes Purpose_quotes Elucidate_quotes Nature_quotes Careful_quotes Control_quotes Condition_quotes Rigorous_quotes Criteria_quotes Present_quotes Situation_quotes Create_quotes Problem_quotes Thousand_quotes Doctor_quotes Science_quotes Method_quotes
George_Sarton
Scientific Progress
“No history of civilization can be tolerably complete which does not give considerable space to the explanation of scientific progress. If we had any doubts about this, it would suffice to ask ourselves what constitutes the essential difference between our and earlier civilizations. Throughout the course of history, in every period, and in almost every country, we find a small number of saints, of great artists, of men of science. The saints of today are not necessarily more saintly than those of a thousand years ago; our artists are not necessarily greater than those of early Greece; they are more likely to be inferior; and of course, our men of science are not necessarily more intelligent than those of old; yet one thing is certain, their knowledge is at once more extensive and more accurate. The acquisition and systematization of positive knowledge is the only human activity which is truly cumulative and progressive. Our civilization is essentially different from earlier ones, because our knowledge of the world and of ourselves is deeper, more precise, and more certain, because we have gradually learned to disentangle the forces of nature, and because we have contrived, by strict obedience to their laws, to capture them and to divert them to the gratification of our own needs.”
- Source: George (Alfred Léon) Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science (1927), Vol. 1, 3-4.
- Keywords: History_quotes Civilization_quotes Tolerance_quotes Completion_quotes Explanation_quotes Science_quotes Progress_quotes Doubt_quotes Sufficient_quotes Constitute_quotes Essential_quotes Differences_quotes Early_quotes Course_quotes Period_quotes Country_quotes Small_quotes Saint_quotes Great_quotes Art_quotes Intelligence_quotes Old_quotes Year_quotes Greece_quotes Inferior_quotes Knowledge_quotes Extension_quotes Accuracy_quotes Acquire_quotes System_quotes Positive_quotes Humanity_quotes Activity_quotes True_quotes Cumulative_quotes World_quotes Depth_quotes Precision_quotes Certainty_quotes Gradual_quotes Learning_quotes Disentangle_quotes Force_quotes Nature_quotes Contrive_quotes Strict_quotes Obedience_quotes Law_quotes Capture_quotes Divergence_quotes Gratify_quotes Need_quotes Progressive_quotes
Robert_Louis_Stevenson
Same Views for Twenty Years
“To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.”
- Source: Stevenson, R.L. in the book 'Crabbed Age and Youth, Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays', p. 67. Republished 1969, originally written between 1874–1879.
Mark_Twain
Annihilation
“Annihilation has no terrors for me, I have already tried it before I was born — a hundred million years — and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.”
- Source: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) in his autobiography, dictated circa 1907 published 1924 in ‘Mark Twain’s Autobiography’ by Mark Twain, Volume 1 and 2, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, Harper & Brothers, New York.
Gerald_Weinberg
Desire To Eliminate Programmers
“Over the years, executives have backed their desire to eliminate programmers with staggering funds.”
- Source: Book Entitled: The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition). Edition: Silver anniversary. Written By: Gerald Weinberg. Published originally: 1971. Republished: 2011.
Thornton_Wilder
Something Eternal
“Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look at'm very often. We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars... everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.”
- Source: Thornton Wilder writing for the Stage Manager character in act three of the play 'Our Town', first published in 1938 by Coward McCann, Inc., New York.
- Keywords: Now_quotes Thing_quotes Know_quotes Take_quotes Look_quotes Often_quotes Something_quotes Eternal_quotes House_quotes Name_quotes Earth_quotes Star_quotes Bone_quotes Human_quotes Being_quotes Great_quotes People_quotes Live_quotes Tell_quotes Year_quotes Surprise_quotes Lose_quotes Hold_quotes Deep_quotes Down_quotes Every_quotes
E_O_Wilson
Unbroken Advance in Mental Ability
“The increase in brain size and refinement of stone artifacts point to an unbroken advance in mental ability over the last two or three million years. ... No organ in the history of life has grown faster.”
- Source: Chapter 4. On Human Nature (1978). On Human Nature; written by Edward O. Wilson; first edition; published in 1978 by Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0674634411.
Stephen_Wolfram
Paradigm Change
“When you change the paradigm, lots of stuff can come out. In science, the biggest paradigm change that's already happened... which is model things in nature with programs not with equations. For 300 years there was this tradition that [if] you want to make a model in science that's an exact model, write down a mathematical equation. People don't do that anymore in most areas of science... It's fun to see this transition from what seems impossible to what becomes obvious.”
- Source: Spoken by Stephen Wolfram in a video interview with Brian Keating recorded in the YouTube video ‘What is Time? Stephen Wolfram’s Groundbreaking New Theory’ published on channel ‘Dr. Brian Keating’ on 2024-12-02. Video offset 1:13:57. Online at https://youtu.be/c-RO3vM10Ok?si=i-XspeEtzqA3jPl9 retrieved 2024.
- Keywords: Change_quotes Paradigm_quotes Science_quotes Happen_quotes Model_quotes Nature_quotes Program_quotes Algorithm_quotes Equation_quotes Year_quotes Tradition_quotes Exact_quotes Mathematics_quotes People_quotes Do_quotes Area_quotes Fun_quotes Transition_quotes Seem_quotes Impossible_quotes Become_quotes Obvious_quotes
Edward_Yourdon
Better Business
“To stay in business, you have to be better — better than you were last year, better than you were yesterday. But you can't improve if you don't know your current situation.”
- 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 3, section 7.1, page 170.
