Heuristics quotes
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This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.
-- Ernst Mayr -
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
-- Imre Lakatos -
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
-- Imre Lakatos -
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
-- Imre Lakatos -
Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.
-- Mark Jason Dominus -
Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.
-- Steve McConnell -
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
-- Wilhelm Wundt -
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By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.
-- Woody Allen
