“... the principle that where there is fear, there will be wrong figures....”
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)
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American professor, author, and consultant 1900–1993Related quotes
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Speech https://diplomatdc.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/the-libertarian-attack-on-abraham-lincoln-by-gregory-hilton/ (1859) <br class="br">1850s
“He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.”
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 244.
“You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.”
Connie Brockway (1954) American writer
Source: The Bridal Season
“Instead of fearing what could go wrong. Fear what happens if you never try.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Modeling Principle: Models are not right or wrong; they are more or less useful.”
Martin Fowler (1963) British programmer
Source: Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models, 1997, p. 2
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1940s - 1950s, Theory of Experimental Inference (1948), p. 256; cited in Sharyn Clough (2003) Siblings Under the Skin: Feminism, Social Justice, and Analytic Philosophy. p. 284
