Important Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The best practice is inspired by theory.

— Donald Knuth

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

— Ludwig Boltzmann

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

— Leonid Brezhnev

The best theory is inspired by practice.

— Donald Knuth

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

We want best efforts guided by theory.

— W. Edwards Deming

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

— Ayn Rand

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

— Anonymous

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

— Joe Grant

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

— Felix Gonzalez-Torres

It's important in any project to remain focused.

— Jehane Noujaim

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

— Kurt Lewin