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- "Even when the experts all agree, they may well be wrong." - Bertrand Russell
- "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha
- "Imagination is more important than Knowledge." - Albert Einstein
- "Some men see things the way they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
- "It is not the strongest species that will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin
- "The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do." - B.F. Skinner
- "All of our present interpretations of the universe are subject to revision or replacement... there are always some alternative constructions available to choose among in dealing with the world." - George Kelly
- "Solutions...are a temporary event, specific to a context, developed through the relationship of persons and circumstances." - Margaret Wheatley
- "Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information." - Peter Drucker
- "Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection [of information]. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters." - Charles West Churchman
- "The wise see knowledge and action as one." - Stafford Beer quoting Bhagvad-Gita
- "From a management point of view, the current division of human knowledge into disciplines is managerially stupid and an often evil design of science, which blocks off inquiry into critical issues because the issues don't fit into the disciplines." - Charles West Churchman
- "Access to more information and more advanced decision aids does not necessarily make decision makers better informed or more able to decide." - Hedberg, B. & Jonsson, S.
- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the ways of the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, progress depends on unreasonable men." - George Bernard Shaw
- "I find more and more executives less and less well informed if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information." - Peter Drucker
- "Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes ... managers do not solve problems: they manage messes." - Russell Ackoff
- "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." - Mark Twain
- "In the period ahead of us, more important than advances in computer design will be the advances we can make in our understanding of human information processing - of thinking, problem solving, and decision making." - Herbert Simon
- "Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers..." - Richard Bach
- "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Sign hanging in Albert Einstein's office at Princeton
- "Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance." - Confucius
- "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F Kennedy
- "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge." - Kahlil Gibran
- "Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow." - Buddha
- "Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind." - Benjamin Disraeli
- "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius
- "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde
- "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them." - Werner Heisenberg
- "Failure is only opportunity to more intelligently begin again." - Henry Ford
- "But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy." - T.S. Eliot
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