John Angell James (1785–1859) British abolitionist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 192.
John Angell James (1785–1859) British abolitionist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 192.
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1988) " On the cruelty of really teaching computing science http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html (EWD1036). <br class="br">1980s
Edward V. Berard (1996) " Be Careful With" Use Cases http://www.tao.com/pub/html/use_case.html" The Object Agency, Inc.
John M. Gaus (1894–1969) American political scientist
Source: Reflections on public administration, 1947, p. 8-9
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)
John Harsanyi (1920–2000) hungarian economist
Source: "Games with Incomplete Information," 1997, p. 138
“You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.”
Facis rem optimam et tibi salutarem, si, ut scribis, perseveras ire ad bonam mentem, quam stultum est optare, cum possis a te impetrare. Non sunt ad caelum elevandae inarms nee exorandus aedituus, ut nos ad aurem simulacri, quasi magis exaudiri possimus, admittat; Prope est a te deus, tecum est, intus est. Ita dico, Lucili: sacer intra nos spiritus sedet, malorum bonorumque nostrorum observator et custos...
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLI: On the god within us
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
The worst of all public dangers is the committee of public safety.
"A Reply to Professor Haldane" (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
Some of these ideas were included in the essay "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" (1949) (see below).
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
Graham Greene reviewing Follow the Fleet in The Spectator 1936 and quoted in Thomas, Bob. Astaire, the Man, The Dancer. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1985. ISBN 0297784021 , p. 81.
Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
"Miami 1972" (1972), p. 283
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
James E. Lovelock (1919) independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist
Interview with The Guardian (29 March 2010)
Daniel Katz (1903–1998) American psychologist
Source: The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966), p. 22
Max Boisot (1943–2011) British academic and educator
Source: Information Space, 1995, p. 235
Ehud Barak (1942) Israeli politician and prime minister
Speech at UC Berkeley http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/19324/edition_id/391/format/html/displaystory.html, November 22, 2002
Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008) American writer
http://www.adidam.org/teaching/first_word/complete_text.html
“No one can say which approach is the right one — so no one can say how close we are to a solution.”
Martin J. Rees (1942) cosmologist, astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, President of the Royal Society
On developing a unification of quantum theory, relativity and classical physics, "Conversation with Martin Rees" at the Templeton Foundation (1 June 2012) https://www.templeton.org/who-we-are/media-room/video-and-audio/conversation-with-martin-rees
Haile Selassie (1892–1975) Emperor of Ethiopia
Words of Appollo P.K Nvenge aka Amentu P.K N'venge in the book African Unity: the Only Solution, missatributed to Haile Selassie by different sources.
Misattributed
“Silicon approaches certain fundamental limits; organic bliss is the soul catcher.”
Andrew Sega (1975) musician from America
Isotoxin author comment, 1995 http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=46539#texts
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Mayer on performeing Human Nature at Michael Jackson's Memorial service
"Episode title unknown". Larry King Live. July 7, 2009. No. unknown, season 24.
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
The phrase in French is found in Étienne Blanchard (1941), "Recueil d'idées", p. 76: "Quand je m'approche d'un enfant, il m'inspire deux sentiments: la tendresse pour ce qu'il est, et le respect pour ce qu'il peut être un jour." It doesn't give any reference, just like modern books which include the quote in English.
Disputed
Moshe Safdie (1938) Israeli-Canadian architect
from lecture Megascale, Order and Complexity held in Emmertal, Germany on July 27, 2008
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
1990s, Speech at Ohio Wesleyan University (1997)
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
On the creation of the hydrogen bomb, in "Infamy and honor at the Atomic Café : Edward Teller has no regrets about his contentious career" by Gary Stix in Scientific American (October 1999), p. 42-43.
K. S. Lal book Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India
Source: Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999), Chapter 7
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"Thoughts on Taste", Edinburgh Magazine (July 1819), final paragraph
Harold Koontz (1909–1984)
Source: "The Management Theory Jungle," 1961, p. 178
David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 314
Stephen Jay Gould book I Have Landed
"Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes", p. 109
I Have Landed (2002)
“He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.”
Jack Vance book To Live Forever
Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter V, section 2
Ralph P. Boas Jr. (1912–1992) American mathematician
[Calculus as an Experimental Science, 78, 6, 1971, 664–667, The American Mathematical Monthly, 10.2307/2316582]
Stanley G. Payne (1934) American historian
Source: Fascism: Comparison and Definition (1980), p. 208-209
Julia Serano (1967) transsexual American writer, spoken-word performer, trans-bi activist, and biologist
Leftist Critiques of Identity Politics (2018)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
Ian Hacking (1936) Canadian philosopher
Ian Hacking (2012), Introductory Essay, in 50th anniversary edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolution
Thomas Rex Lee (1964) Utah Supreme Court justice
A Dialogue with Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas R. Lee https://web.archive.org/web/20150120094848/www.attorneyatlawmagazine.com/salt-lake-city/dialogue-utah-supreme-court-justice-thomas-r-lee/
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Si je me tue ce ne sera pas pour me détruire, mais pour me reconstituer, le suicide ne sera pour moi qu’un moyen de me reconquérir violemment, de faire brutalement irruption dans mon être, de devancer l’avance incertaine de Dieu. Par le suicide, je réintroduis mon dessin dans la nature, je donne pour la première fois aux choses la forme de ma volonté.
“On Suicide,” no. 1, Le Disque Vert (1925).
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
George Klir (1932–2016) American computer scientist
Source: An approach to general systems theory (1969), p. 97 as cited in: B. Van Rootselaar (2009) Annals of Systems Research. p. 114: About the aim of general systems theory
David A. Nadler (1948–2015) American organizational theorist
Source: "Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organizational Design." 1978, p. 613: Abstract
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1940s - 1950s, Introduction to Operations Research (1957), p. 7; cited in Werner Ulrich (2004, p. 210)
Nicholas D. Kristof (1959) journalist, author, columnist
[Removing the Barriers for Women Around the Globe], The New York Times (30 September 2018)
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Council on Foreign Relations speech in 2006 ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXJ1mgkyF0), quoted in "Hillary Clinton In 2006: ‘Secure Our Border With… Physical Barriers’" http://www.westernjournalism.com/hillary-clinton-in-2006-secure-our-border-with-physical-barriers/ by Gerry Urbanek, Western Journalism (10 June 2016). <br class="br">Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)
Harold Koontz (1909–1984)
Source: "The Management Theory Jungle," 1961, p. 177
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Source: 1960s, Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964), p. 321
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
Scientology Policy Letters
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919–1974) Indian writer
In another of his speeches on Indian tradition quoted in "Jayachamaraja Wodeyar – A Princely scholar".
Shunroku Hata (1879–1962) Japanese general
Quoted in "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939" - by Alvin D. Coox - Page 1184 - 1990
John Gray book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Non-Progress: An Irony of History (p. 160)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691) French writer
Théâtre des ris et des pleurs
Lit! où je nais, et où je meurs,
Tu nous fais voir comment voisins
Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.
Translated by Samuel Johnson, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838–1922) British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1921/jun/16/the-government-of-ireland#column_635 in the House of Lords (16 June 1921) during the Irish War of Independence <br class="br">1920s
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) British literary critic
Angela Carter Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (London: Chatto & Windus, 1992) p. 9
Criticism
Thorstein Veblen book The Theory of the Leisure Class
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 32
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
A statement made in a video interview from here (1995) http://www.veoh.com/collection/davebelskistalk/watch/v159267997BpS5JDR <br class="br">1990s
Morris Kline (1908–1992) American mathematician
Source: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972), pp. 298-299
Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008) American writer
http://www.adidam.org/teaching/first_word/complete_text.html
Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive
Her exhortation to her executives with her mantram “Performance with a Purpose” quoted in [Nelson, Debra L., Quick, James Campbell, Organizational Behavior.: Science, the Real World, and You, http://books.google.com/books?id=hSnFaZ9ddnsC&pg=PA99, 9 February 2010, Cengage Learning, 978-1-4390-4229-8, 99–]
Eric Hobsbawm book The Age of Extremes
Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Eleven, Cultural Revolution, p.320
John Zachman (1934) American computer scientist
Source: Business Systems Planning and Business Information Control Study: A comparison, 1982, p. 31
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (1953) American software engineer
Source: Object-oriented design: a responsibility-driven approach (1989), p. 75: Conclusion
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) American architect
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Anthony Crosland (1918–1977) British politician
'Class hypocrisy of the conservationists', The Times (8 January 1971), p. 10
An extract from the Fabian pamphlet A Social Democratic Britain.
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist
Source: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 7.
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, enlightener, philosopher
§ 344
Agni Yoga (1929)
Terry M. Moe (1949) American political scientist
Terry M. Moe, "Toward a Theory of Public Bureaucracy." Oliver E. Williamson ed. Organization theory: From Chester Barnard to the present and beyond (1995): 116.
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
How to be like Mike (2005)
“A systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 231; cited in Michael C. Jackson (2003) Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers. p. 139
Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001)
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (1958), p. 307
Robert L. Flood (1959) British organizational scientist
Robert L. Flood (1993) Dealing with Complexity: An Introduction to the Theory and … - Pagina 127.
Ervin László (1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher
Source: Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972), p.xviii.
Thaddus E. Weckowicz (1919–2000) Canadian psychologist
Introduction text.
A History of Great Ideas in Abnormal Psychology, (1990)
Edwin Boring (1886–1968) American psychologist
Source: Psychologist at large, 1961, p. 22–23: As cited in: Hergenhahn (2008;274)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 115.
Richard L. Daft (1964) American sociologist
Source: Organization Theory and Design, 2007-2010, p. 500
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) American activist
Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 334
Terry M. Moe (1949) American political scientist
Source: "The new economics of organization." 1984, p. 746-747; as cited in Eggertsson (1990; 56)
Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873–1952) British judge
Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 235
Nicole Oresme (1323–1382) French philosopher
Source: De Moneta (c. 1360), Ch. 25: That a Tyrant cannot be lasting
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), pp. 96-97.
William Foote Whyte (1914–2000) American sociologist
Source: Making Mondragón, 1965, p. 176-177; As cited in: Ickis (2014)