Hans H Wellisch famous quotes

It is well documented that the same text, indexed by several indexers, will result in as many slightly or even substantially different indexes, and even the same indexer will produce varying indexes for the same text at different times.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Different #Results #Produce

The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various types of books, rules entirely satisfactory in one case must be varied in the next and perhaps ignored or even reversed for a third... Indexing is a highly complex intellectual process involving the use of language in a specific and somewhat artificial way, and that it is also to a considerable extent a matter of intuition, the workings of which cannot be reduced to fixed rules. It is 'knowing what but not knowing how'.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Book #Class #Knowing

We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to a set of rules. At most, the observable facts of the indexing operation can be described.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Facts #Operations #Knows

Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Eye #Logical #Preference

There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Color #Needs #Shapes

Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Book #Hallmark #Indexing

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.