“It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.” ShouldStillsCountryGovernmentSoundResponsibilityPrinciplesDutyFinanceProvidingRevenueSounder Author:Wilfrid Laurier
“After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.” IfsStoriesCertainSoundSimplePrinciplesWrittenSellsThings To DoBasic PrinciplesSalesmanship Author:Erle Stanley Gardner
“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.” IfsKnowsEnoughSoundPoorPowerfulPrinciplesSupportPathToo MuchTerribleCreaturesWeakComplicatedConfusionJudgementSpidersCreeps Book:Popular Scientific Lectures Source: Popular Scientific Lectures
“In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.” WellsRememberFoundSoundGrowthPrinciplesDangerWorshipGoldCompromiseCertaintyPerpetualTinselPerpetual Motion Author:Benjamin Cardozo
“It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.” YearsImportantChoicesFoundSoundPresidentInterestPrinciplesRolesTalentDutyStandardsCourtSupremeFulfillingSupreme CourtBehalfSeriousnessReducingJudicialWhimDeferencePertinentAbdication Author:George Will
“If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.” IfsFirstsReasonLawSoundPrinciplesMoralityAssumingLibertarianArguingObjectivesContradictionNo ReasonFree WillCommodity Author:William J. Murray
“we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete with the trust companies' huge resources, etc. The facts are quite the opposite. It may be that the institutions are better equipped than the individual to speculate in the market.But I am convinced that an individual investor with sound principles, and soundly advised, can do distinctly better over the long pull than large institutions.” MayLongFactsIndividualSoundCan DoCompanyPrinciplesHugeResourcesOppositesInstitutionsConvincedEtcInvestorsComplaintsDisadvantagesDominance Author:Benjamin Graham
“Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.” RealUseSoundPrinciplesMachinesSoftwareEstablishmentEngineeringSoftware Engineering Author:Friedrich L. Bauer