Harold Chestnut quotes

“Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.”
-- Harold Chestnut

Source : "Systems Engineering Tools". Book by Harold Chestnut, 1965.

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“Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.”

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”

“The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap”

“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

“Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.”

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

“If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.”

“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”

“Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.”

“Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.”