Terry Winograd quotes

“The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.”
-- Terry Winograd

Source : "Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering". Book by Derek Partridge, "Beyond Programming Languages", 1991.

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“In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those aspects of computing that are focused on people, rather than machinery.”
-- Terry Winograd

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“Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.”
-- Terry Winograd

Source : Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores (1986). “Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design”, p.13, Intellect Books

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“The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.”
-- Terry Winograd

Source : "Thinking Machines: Can there be? Are we?". Book by Terry Winograd, 1990.

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“There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools.”
-- Terry Winograd

Source : "An Interview with Terry Winograd: Convergence, Ambient Technology, and Success in Innovation". ubiquity.acm.org. October 2008.

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“A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn't have the intelligence.”
-- Terry Winograd

Source : "Designing Interactions". Book by Bill Moggridge, chapter 7, www.designinginteractions.com. 2007.

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“I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.”

Source : Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.”

“Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.”

Source : "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial". Book by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, 1997.

“The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.”

Source : Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.126, North Atlantic Books

“The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.”

“I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.”

Source : Mireille Guiliano (2009). “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

“Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.”