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Quotes from Writing for Social Scientists — Howard S. Becker

1928–2023 United States

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The marketing people don't care about the elegance and perfection that impresses the engineers' peers. They think engineers are impractical cuckoos who would just as soon bankrupt the company by pursuing perfectionist pipe dreams.

Writing for Social Scientists (1986)

Doesn't every sentence somehow contain in itself, at least by implication, the whole argument? Sure. So what? Remember that any sentence can be changed, rewritten, thrown out or contradicted. That lets you write anything at all.

Writing for Social Scientists (1986)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Howard S. Becker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.