Ad Hoc Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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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
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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
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[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
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
— David Langford
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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
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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
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You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.
— Evan Parker
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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
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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
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The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the…
— Janet Malcolm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Ad Hoc Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Ad Hoc Quotes as follows: