398 Quotes About Fundamentals

  • Author Fred Brooks
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    The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back..

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  • Author Gary Becker
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    Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

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  • Author Georg Brandes
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    But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

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  • Author George W. Bush
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    We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental — supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel.

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  • Author Harry A. Blackmun
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    What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

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  • Author Isaiah Berlin
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    The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

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  • Author James Bovard
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    The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

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  • Author Joe Biden
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    Anybody who pretends that how you read the 10th and 11th Amendment doesn't have a fundamental impact on the things we care about is kidding themselves. They're either uninformed or they're kidding themselves.

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  • Author Julian Baggini
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    Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

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