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We never had any use for Taylor nor any of the efficiency or scientific management crowd. They never realized that human toil was the last thing in the world you had to be efficient about; the only way to be really efficient is to eliminate it entirely, and this would have been heresy to any of the Taylor, Gant, Barth, Cook efficiency crowd. It is sad to contemplate that men of the technical ability of the names mentioned in this paragraph were so lame in their thinking and social outlook that they missed the boat so completely. Who in hell wants to be efficient with a shovel, and what sense would there be even if you succeeded? They should have had their heads opened with a shovel, it might have been more effective.
Howard Scott
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Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.
Francis Hopkinson Smith
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In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships.... So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.
Wernher von Braun
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When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.
Andrew X. Pham
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If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it, and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some error with it.
Wilbur Wright
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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.
Ken Jennings
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Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]
Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.
Steve McConnell
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In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.
Harold Eugene Edgerton
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When you do dome up with a solution, you can always explain it logically, even though it's the absurd approach that gave you the solution.
Paul MacCready
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To define it rudely but not inaptly, [engineering] is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
Arthur M. Wellington
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Engineering is superficial only to those who view it superficially. At the heart of engineering lies existential joy.
Samuel C. Florman
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If you can't reduce a difficult engineering problem to just one 8-1/2 x 11-inch sheet of paper, you will probably never understand it.
Ralph Brazelton Peck
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The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.
John B. Jervis
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Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
Tom DeMarco
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The term closed loop-learning process refers to the idea that one learns by determining what s desired and comparing what is actually taking place as measured at the process and feedback for comparison. The difference between what is desired and what is taking place provides an error indication which is used to develop a signal to the process being controlled.
Harold Chestnut
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Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
Gil Amelio
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The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
Jay Wright Forrester
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Sermons are not always preached from pulpits. They are written in the rocks and on the flowers of the field and the trees of the forest.
Elisha Gray
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I would like to comment briefly on Professor Zadeh's presentation. His proposals could be severely, ferociously, even brutally criticized from a technical point of view. This would be out of place here. But a blunt question remains: Is professor Zadeh presenting important ideas or is he indulging in wishful thinking? No doubt Professor Zadeh's enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing climate in the U.S.-one of unprecedented permissiveness. 'Fuzzification, is a kind of scientific permissiveness; it tends to result in socially appealing slogans unaccompanied by the discipline of hard scientific work and patient observation.
Rudolf E. Kálmán
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For any given set of objects it is impossible to say that no interrelationships exist.
Arthur D. Hall
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Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.
Kent Beck
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if tachyons are one day discovered... the day before the momentous occasion a notice from the discoverers should appear in newspapers announcing "tachyons have been discovered tomorrow."
Paul J. Nahin
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Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
Wilson Greatbatch
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Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.
Stephen Schneider
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The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.
Jack Welch
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