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Science is the study of those things that can be reduced to the study of other things.

— Gerald Weinberg

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As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world.

If the software doesn't have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.

If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Weinberg attributed with the quote in: Murali Chemuturi (2010)

The power of the Ten Commandments is magnified if you remember the Helpful Model: No matter how it looks, everyone is trying to be helpful.

A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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