"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do." Piaget |
"It is better to be skilled in thinking than to be stuffed with facts." Edward De Bono, 1967, The Five Day Course in Thinking |
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had acheived so much.... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be much more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons" Douglas Adams |
"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?" Groucho Marx |
"Knowledge is power" Sir Francis Bacon |
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" Confucius |
"Chance favours only the prepared mind" Louis Pasteur |
"The human mind is like a parachute, it only works when its open" ?Sir James Dewar 1842-1923 |
"Knowledge comes from practice and experience not information processing" K. Devlin, Infosense |
"Whilst 'Garbage In => Garbage Out' it is not true that 'Expertise In => Expertise Out' " Rob Welch, Black Dog Group Ltd |
" 'Madness' is continually doing the same thing while expecting a different result" Alcoholics Anonymous |
"Fixed patterns of thinking cause errors" Sir Francis Bacon |
"Where services are the prime product: people, their knowledge, and the intellectual property they create, are the only assets of the company." Rob Welch, Black Dog Group Ltd |
"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say... " Joe in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Ch 27 |
"If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail" unknown |
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"So the message is, that there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns."
Donald Rumsfeld, America's Defence Secretary, at a Press Conference in 2002 talking about the war against Iraq. This quote won the British Plain English Campaign's annual award (2003) for the most nonsensical remark made by a public figure. |
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"I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California. |
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"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think... and I assume it's what I said"
Donald Rumsfeld, America's Defence Secretary. |
Last updated January 2009