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 Principles, Facts, Principles and Practices, Simple, 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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