“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”
“The Golden Rule works like gravitation.”
Cleveland Address, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
“Ten Golden Rules (for the album of a young conductor)”
Recollections and Reflections
"The Beauty of Life," a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881 (1882).
Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)
" JOSHUA HOMME: “IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT’S BEEN SAID, IT’S NEVER BEEN SAID BY ME” http://www.antiquiet.com/news/2010/09/josh-homme-interview-zane-lowe/", Antiquet (August 27th, 2009)
“Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.”
La soumission aux données de l'expérience est la règle d'or qui domine toute discipline scientifique.
in his speech when he was awarded the Academician sword, address to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (October 19, 1993).
1980s, GNU Manifesto (1985)
Context: I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. For years I worked within the Artificial Intelligence Lab to resist such tendencies and other inhospitalities, but eventually they had gone too far: I could not remain in an institution where such things are done for me against my will.
So that I can continue to use computers without dishonor, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free. I have resigned from the AI lab to deny MIT any legal excuse to prevent me from giving GNU away.
Hansard, 6 ser, vol 297 col 304 (2 July 1997)
From Brown's first Budget speech.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Part I, Chapter 17, Experiments in Dietetics
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
