quotes about Heuristics
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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.
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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.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
-- Imre LakatosSource : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.49, Cambridge University Press
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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 LakatosSource : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.68, Cambridge University Press
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
-- Imre LakatosSource : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.50, Cambridge University Press
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Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.
-- Mark Jason DominusSource : "My Life With Spam". www.perl.com. February 9, 2000.
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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 McConnellSource : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.12, Pearson Education
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The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
-- Wilhelm WundtSource : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
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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
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“Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.”
Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
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“A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.”
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“As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.”
Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.152, University of Michigan Press
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“How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.”
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Source : Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.133, Hachette UK
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“I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.”