Department Quote by J. Willard Gibbs

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum...…

— Paul Saffo

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum..…

— Paul Saffo

To write is to look for very particular, specific points of view on reality.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

— Lisa Randall

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

— Ken Thompson

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application…

— Kenneth L. Pike

In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps…

— Clayton Christensen

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

The best practice is inspired by theory.

— Donald Knuth

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what…

— John Henry Holland

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling