
“New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.”
My Works and Days (1979)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 476.
“New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.”
My Works and Days (1979)
On an interview with the Catalan Autonomous Television, just before politically coallitioning with Catalan, Canarian and Basque nationalists
Source: L' Aznar destrossant la llengua catalana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m95BZOKDPs, December 2006.
Interview with Orrin Pilkey & Linda Jarvis-Pilkey https://web.archive.org/web/20080105132439/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/publicity/pilkeyinterview.html.
Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (2007)
“There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts”
Quantum explanations http://lesswrong.com/lw/pc/quantum_explanations/ (April 2008), part of his Quantum Physics Sequence http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/.
Context: There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.
Source: 1960s, Scientific method: optimizing applied research decisions, 1962, p. 108 as cited in: Charles West Churchman, Richard O. Mason (1976) World modeling: a dialogue. p. 23.
Source: A spiral model of software development and enhancement. (1988), p. 61
“How come we play war and not peace?"
"Too few role models.”
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
She has no mouth.
From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Hearing on Coronavirus (March 5, 2020)
therefore interpolating between them
Information and determinism, Epist. Letters (Ferdinand Gonseth Association) (1980) 49.0.