Heuristics famous quotes

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.
-- Daniel Kahneman

#Essence #Heuristics #Answers

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.
-- Ernst Mayr

#Issues #Criticism #Heuristics

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
-- Imre Lakatos

#Negative #Heuristics #Research

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
-- Imre Lakatos

#Would Be #Heuristics #Research

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
-- Imre Lakatos

#Confused #Ocean #Heuristics

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.
-- Mark Jason Dominus

#Way #Heuristics #Fancy

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.
-- Steve McConnell

#Fun #Heuristics #Algorithms

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
-- Wilhelm Wundt

#Views #Psychology #Heuristics

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.
-- Woody Allen

#Mistake #Simple #Heuristics