“The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.” ShouldFirstsBattleWeaponsStructureResponseDataPrimariesProgrammersNever EndingData Structures Author:Fred Brooks
“If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.” IfsWarLyingRealizingEffectsInformationBattleBasesStructureRuinsHeatReportsCollapseUncertainContradictoryTransientUnreliable Author:Carl von Clausewitz
“A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.” DifferentWarMatterProblemTogetherPoliticalStrongCommonOpinionMysteryAcceptanceVictoryBattleScientistStructureBoundsDefeatCivil WarDnaEquationsDisputesAdversariesAlliancesValidityDarwinismDifferent OpinionsMaxwell Author:Primo Levi
“I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.” PeopleIfsMenFightingBattleStructureAdmireOppositionReverends Author:Malcolm X
“The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.” WorldNeedsHas BeensChristianPoliticalSocialChurchLinesPartyBattleUnderstoodStructureUnionsDemocratMeaninglessFadedPopulistSocial Structure Author:Anne Applebaum
“We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.” PeopleWarWholeWinningBlackWhiteBattleStructureProtestBlack PeopleDefiniteWhite Power Author:Muhammad Ali
“Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.” ShouldFilmYoungDealsBattleStructureMakers Author:Martin Scorsese
“The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.” LittlesHas BeensReligionAtheismEvolutionBattleConceptsFoundationStructureMedicineDetailsBiologyJournalQuarrelsParadigmValidity Book:Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe Source: Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe
“In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.” ShouldFirstsWellsArtEndsPlayLastsEvilForceActingQualityPrinciplesPiecesWrittenBattleOppositesStructureRageDrivingPrimariesImpulseGood And EvilPlotSectionsDriving ForceWell Written Author:Michael Chekhov