Quotes About Knowledge

The more he learned, the less he knew, and so he came to understand a fundamental truth of wine: As much as we learn about it, as much as we know, it is at its heart a mystery.

Freud knew the answers. If you don't understand something about sex, don't say it's awful or mysterious. Look it up in Freud.

Hemos sido engañados a creer que acumular la sabiduría del mundo nos hace sabios, cuando realmente quizás sólo nos llene de prejuicios.

It's like trying to convince someone to go on a lengthy, expensive European vacation when you yourself have never left the country.

A model is a selectively simplified and consciously structured form of knowledge.

there should be some learning when a domain model is discussed.

Knowledge crunching is an exploration, and you can't know where you will end up.

Success comes in an emerging set of abstract concepts that makes sense of all the detail. This distillation is a rigorous expression of the particular knowledge that has been found most relevant.

Knowledge trickles in one direction, but does not accumulate.

That shallowness of knowledge produces software that does a basic job but lacks a deep connection to the domain expert's way of thinking.

When we set out to write software, we never know enough.

The domain experts had learned more and had clarified the goal of the application.

Because the domain experts are feeding into it, it reflects deep knowledge of the business and those abstractions are true business principles.

The complexity of a highly detailed interaction ends up being handled in the application layer, allowing domain knowledge to creep into the application or user interface code, where it is lost from the domain layer.

concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let's look at some examples of using these falsey values

We haven't done much writing code, but we are reading and understanding code, and that can be just as good. So

The universe of words had always seemed to him a fascinating, forbidding territory, open only to a privileged few.

It has been said that the excavations conducted under Mussolini during those fourteen years "added more to our knowledge of Augustan Rome than the previous fourteen centuries had provided.

Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remember what others forgot, more essential (...) than ever before.

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.