Ad Hoc Quotes

#1. Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

Narendra Modi

#2. Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Philip Greenspun

#3. I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.

Richard Dawkins

#4. An organizational norm that says, "We value practice over theory but we value theory-informed practice over ad-hoc practice" helps to restore some respect for theory. We

Sriram Narayan

#5. The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Ray Bradbury

#6. Love has no ad hoc principle; it is universal.

Debasish Mridha

#7. In the age of globalization - an ad hoc, temp-job, fiercely competitive age - hope is not a fiction.

Katherine Boo

#8. Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

George Friedman

#9. Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Peter Tork

#10. Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

Murray Rothbard

#12. In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

Alfred North Whitehead

#13. If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There's no real continuity of care.

Chris Viehbacher

#14. I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

Rob James-Collier

#15. Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor.

David Foster Wallace

#16. In the same sense that every thermal differential wants to equalize itself, and every computer program wants to become a collection of ad-hoc patches, every Cause wants to be a cult. It's

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#17. So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

Evan Parker

#18. At no point did I form the conscious intention of founding an ad hoc university in my sitting room. It happened, as it were, by accident.

Marie Brennan

#19. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

David Langford

#20. The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy.

Nic Pizzolatto

#21. You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Evan Parker

#22. In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society).

Norman F. Cantor

#23. Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

Glen Duncan

#24. When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#25. With me, what you see is what you get.

Karina Lombard

#26. I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Mark Mathabane

#27. I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

Jarvis Cocker

#28. I've heard some of Victoria's new album and it's frightening.

David Beckham

#29. I feel like I owe Juilliard everything ... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can't afford it, you can get a scholarship.

Jess Weixler

#30. Lick David Tennant's face.

Jenny Lawson

#31. The fountain-head of rebellion, on the contrary, is the principle of
superabundant activity and energy.

Albert Camus

#32. Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

John Milton

#33. Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo.
However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.

Johannes Kepler