Ad Hoc Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way… — Richard Dawkins
If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone… — Chris Viehbacher
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. — David Langford
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun
So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those… — Evan Parker
You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses. — Evan Parker
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing… — Marilyn Strathern
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
The â€˜Iâ€™ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the â€˜Iâ€™ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the… — Janet Malcolm
The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is… — Stephen F. Hayes
Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their… — George Friedman
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked… — Alfred North Whitehead
Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc,… — Peter Tork
Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to… — Paul Feyerabend
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a… — Rob James-Collier
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to… — Karl Popper
When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With… — Murray Rothbard
The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand… — Ray Bradbury

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