"About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so."

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Source : J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

J. C. R. Licklider

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.”
“Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'”
“Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.”
“You don't put bumper stickers on a Bentley.”
“Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.”
“Some people advise you what to do and some people forbid what not to do, but the genuine people just ask you if they can do anything for you.”
“I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton.”
“I'm probably a little too uninhibited.”

Source : "Ben Barnes Talks KILLING BONO and THE SEVENTH SON". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 1, 2011.

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