14 March 2025

🧩IT: Short Quotes Used in Various Posts

Short quotes used in the various posts:

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." (Charles F Kettering)Approaching a Query

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot." (Thomas Paine)Guiding Principles

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together." (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)Guiding Principles

"Data quality requires certain level of sophistication within a company to even understand that it’s a problem." (Colleen Graham): [Who Messed with My Data?]

"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below." (John Dryden)
: [Who Messed with My Data?]

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Albert Einstein)Facts, Principles and Practices

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." (Henry L Mencken) [Who Messed with My Data?]

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." (Abraham Maslow): [Who Messed with My Data?]

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." (Eisenhower quoted by Nixon)Planning Correctly Misunderstood

"It's a bad plan that admits of no modification." (Publilius Syrus)Planning Correctly Misunderstood

"Keep it simple, stupid" (aka KISS): Guiding PrinciplesFacts, Principles and PracticesSimple, but not that Simple

"Management is doing things right […]" (Peter Drucker)Guiding Principles

"No plan ever survived contact with the enemy." (Carl von Clausewitz)Planning Correctly Misunderstood

"Obey the principles without being bound by them." (Bruce Lee)Guiding Principles

"Students are often able to use algorithms to solve numerical problems without completely understanding the underlying scientific concept." (Eric Mazur): [Who Messed with My Data?]

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." (Hans Hofmann)Facts, Principles and Practices

"The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." (Carl von Clausewitz)Planning Correctly Misunderstood

"The first obligation of Simplicity is that of using the simplest means to secure the fullest effect" (George Lewes, "Style in Literature")Designing for Simplicity

"The weakest spot in a good defense is designed to fail." (Mark Lawrence): [Who Messed with My Data?]

"To err is human; to try to prevent recurrence of error is science." (Anon): [Who Messed with My Data?

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