Science is the study of those things that can be reduced to the study of other things.
—Gerald M. Weinberg
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
—Gerald M. Weinberg
Topics: Computers
Each person is important and can mean something for the world. You can do more than you think.
—Gerald M. Weinberg
A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used.
—Gerald M. Weinberg
Things are the way they are because they got that way.
—Gerald M. Weinberg
The generalist, is like the fox, who knows many things. Just as anthropologists learn to live in many cultures, without rifles, so do certain scientists manage to adapt comfortably to the paradigms of several disciplines. How do they do it? When questioned, these generalists always express an inner faith in the unity of science. They, too, carry a single paradigm, but it is one taken from a much higher vantage point, one from which the paradigms of the different disciplines are seen to be very much alike, though often obscured by special language.
—Gerald M. Weinberg
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