Heuristics Quotes

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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… — Imre Lakatos
Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. Itâ€™s less predictable, itâ€™s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. — Steve McConnell
While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of… — John W. Thompson
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. — Imre Lakatos
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… — Ernst Mayr
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. — Imre Lakatos
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — Wilhelm Wundt
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen
The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. — Daniel Kahneman
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are… — Daniel Kahneman
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky

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