principles
Jorg Largent
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
The internet is a telephone network that’s gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll
No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words, but rather short, easy to understand words like “What about lunch?”
A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. Sir Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Sir Isaac Newton
Engineering is an art, and its implementation demands elegance.
Professor Jon Arnold, Stanford University
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Sir Isaac Newton
Fourier is a mathematical poem.
Lord Kelvin
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.
Lord Kelvin
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are:
Concentration
Discrimination
Organization
Innovation, and
Communication.
Michael Faraday
Lectures which really teach will never be popular;
lectures which are popular will never really teach.
Michael Faraday
…it is difficult for us to believe that intellectual curiosity is a desire like any other, and to recognize that correct knowledge and truth are not identical. W. H. Audin
Bulverism is a term coined by C. S. Lewis: it means simply assuming that people who disagree with you are wrong, and then speculating about why they are wrong (usually because they’re evil).
Social media are the most fertile ground ever created for Bulverism.
Alan Jacobs
Not everyone has the same mission statement. There may be a mission statement regarding developing a new product, but there may be those who view the product as an opportunity for career advancement. People in the second group are willing to sacrifice the project if such a sacrifice will advance their career.
The opposite of complexity is clarity, not simplicity
Peter Tuddenham
In the pursuit of truth leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein