“... 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
Speech https://diplomatdc.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/the-libertarian-attack-on-abraham-lincoln-by-gregory-hilton/ (1859)
1850s
“He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.”
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.”
Source: The Bridal Season
“Instead of fearing what could go wrong. Fear what happens if you never try.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Modeling Principle: Models are not right or wrong; they are more or less useful.”
Source: Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models, 1997, p. 2
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
