Correctness Quotes - Page 3

• A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Lying, Long, Black

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Ties, Shoes

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

  Amari Cooper

  Learning, Confusion, Design

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• Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Opportunity, Practice, Skills

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.474, Macmillan

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• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Quality, Doe

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• Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won’t do it on their own,” he added. “It’s taken them 50, 60 years to get to this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education system, the university, academia system, the media. It’s taken a long time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Believe, Exercise

  "Rush Limbaugh’s Devastating Definition of ‘Liberalism’ (Plus: He Is Celebrating a HUGE Career Milestone)". www.theblaze.com. August 2, 2013.

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• I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Worry, Political, Shocking

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

  George Washington

  Education, Math, Mind

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

  Jon Voight

  Country, Lying, Break Through

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• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Play, Skills

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• Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Keys, Political, Growth

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• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Important, Might

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Truth, Errors, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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• It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Eye, Garden, Eden

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• Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

  William Westney

  Judging, Want, Lasts

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• Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

  Don Rickles

  Political, Political Correctness

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Political correctness kills discussion.

  Lars von Trier

  Political, Political Correctness, Discussion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

  Mark Twain

  Grieving, Knowing, Childhood

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.393, Createspace Independent Pub

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• The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Brave

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.933, Delphi Classics

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• Thus evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns — warm or cold — is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

  Ilana Mercer

  Weather, Climate, Patterns

  "Reincarnation of the Reds". www.wnd.com. December 29, 2006.

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• The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Gay, Men

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• The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Party, Negative Experiences

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• Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

  Aleister Crowley

  Would Be, Done, Calm

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.

  Norbert Wiener

  Powerful, School, Grieving

  Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”

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