Quotes About Methodology

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

If I don't have real answers, it is because we still don't know what questions to ask. Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motivations selfish.

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing.

I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

I think polling methodology is broken.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.

Yoga is the methodology with which to unveil the miracle that exists right in front of our faces and inside ourselves.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Se não tenho respostas verdadeiras é porque ainda não sabemos que perguntas devemos fazer. Nossos instrumentos são inúteis; nossa metodologia, defeituosa; nossas motivações, egoístas.

The use of a good process that engages people is much more desirable, even if it does not initially achieve all the results.

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

Rick Neiswonger possessed methodology and proprietary knowledge in the field of marketing which I wanted to learn and master.

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false.

The only way to make the deadline—the only way to go fast—is to keep the code as clean as possible at all times.

Implementation Patterns.

More precisely, the Law of Demeter says that a method f of a class C should only call the methods of these: • C • An object created by f • An object passed as an argument to f • An object held in an instance variable of C

Paradigms are ways of programming, relatively unrelated to languages. A paradigm tells you which programming structures to use, and when to use them. To date, there have been three such paradigms. For reasons we shall discuss later, there are unlikely to be any others.

structured programming, object-orient programming, and functional programming.

During this design process, we rarely considered whether we were performing analysis, design, or implementation

1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the experiments and (6) conclusions from the results of the experiments.

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.