Top 100 Quotes About Deutsch
#1. David Deutsch, in The Fabric of Reality, embraces the 'many worlds' interpretation of quantum theory,
Richard Dawkins
#2. War, to be abolished, must be understood. To be understood, it must be studied." Karl Deutsch - preface of A Study of War by Quincy Wright. Added corollary by KMV: To abolish what is not understood is both arrogant and ignorant.
Karl Deutsch
#3. The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.
Adolf Hitler
#4. It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.
Armand Deutsch
#5. For many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.
Helene Deutsch
#6. If two programs respond in the same way to every possible action by the user, then they render the same environment; if they would respond perceptibly differently to even one possible action, they render different environments.
David Deutsch
#7. Yet, over time, the conclusions that science has drawn have become ever truer to reality.
David Deutsch
#8. Power is the ability to afford not to learn.
Karl Deutsch
#9. I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.
Donny Deutsch
#10. They say she was once a grand lady and lived on the hill. But she took to reading books and went from bad to worse. Stuffed her head full of ideas, and now she's a bit addled.
Helen Deutsch
#11. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Donny Deutsch
#12. If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.
Donny Deutsch
#13. [a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.
Helene Deutsch
#14. Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.
Helene Deutsch
#15. All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
Helene Deutsch
#16. Because we are universal explainers, we are not simply obeying our genes. For
David Deutsch
#17. I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
Mark Twain
#18. Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
David Deutsch
#19. How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still?
Babette Deutsch
#21. All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
Helene Deutsch
#22. I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.
Donny Deutsch
#23. That person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.
Helene Deutsch
#24. The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.
Babette Deutsch
#25. Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
David Deutsch
#26. The Enlightenment (The beginning of) a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations instead of reliance on authority.
David Deutsch
#27. I don't have a favorite medium; I was brought up on TV. so I am clearly of the TV generation, but it depends on what you are trying to sell; sometimes a fully integrated solution, sometimes a pure Internet solution, sometimes a pure billboard solution.
Donny Deutsch
#28. Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
David Deutsch
#29. No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.
David Deutsch
#30. Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
Babette Deutsch
#31. By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint.
Bob Deutsch
#32. You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights ...
Donny Deutsch
#33. It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
David Deutsch
#34. It is a mistake to conceive of choice and decision-making as a process of selecting from existing options according to a fixed formula. That omits the most important element of decision-making, namely the creation of new options. Good
David Deutsch
#35. The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?
Donny Deutsch
#36. Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.
Donny Deutsch
#37. Quantum computation is ... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature ... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
David Deutsch
#38. It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.
Donny Deutsch
#39. Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.
David Deutsch
#40. Because pessimism needs to counter that argument in order to be at all persuasive, a recurring theme in pessimistic theories throughout history has been that an exceptionally dangerous moment is imminent.
David Deutsch
#41. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusions.
David Deutsch
#42. The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.
Donny Deutsch
#44. When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.
Donny Deutsch
#45. Every business is about understanding people. Which people you have to get through. Which people you have to embrace. Which people you have to jump over. Which people you have to push out of the way. That's the game.
Donny Deutsch
#46. The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
Helene Deutsch
#47. The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
David Deutsch
#48. The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
Donny Deutsch
#49. We deserve what we earn. Anything more than that is wrong.
Barry Deutsch
#50. The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
David Deutsch
#51. Trying to rely on the sheer good luck of avoiding bad outcomes indefinitely would simply guarantee that we would eventually fail without the means of recovering.
David Deutsch
#52. The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.
David Deutsch
#53. The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.
David Deutsch
#54. Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
David Deutsch
#55. To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
David Deutsch
#56. Only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.
Helene Deutsch
#57. If we can't program it, we can't understand it.
David Deutsch
#58. Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.
David Deutsch
#59. I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.
David Deutsch
#60. The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
Babette Deutsch
#61. If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial ... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.
David Deutsch
#62. Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.
Armand Deutsch
#65. My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
Donny Deutsch
#66. Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.
David Deutsch
#67. I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.
Donny Deutsch
#68. You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.
Donny Deutsch
#70. A Nation ... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
Karl Deutsch
#72. I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.
David Deutsch
#73. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.
Donny Deutsch
#74. The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.
Helene Deutsch
#75. I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.
Donny Deutsch
#76. Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
L Peter Deutsch
#77. Copenhagen interpretation Niels Bohr's combination of instrumentalism, anthropocentrism and studied ambiguity, used to avoid understanding quantum theory as being about reality.
David Deutsch
#78. Bad philosophy before the Enlightenment was typically of the because-I-say-so variety. When the Enlightenment liberated philosophy and science, they both began to make progress, and increasingly there was good philosophy. But, paradoxically, bad philosophy became worse.
David Deutsch
#79. That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.
Donny Deutsch
#80. The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.
Stacia Deutsch
#81. The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.
Donny Deutsch
#82. I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.
Armand Deutsch
#83. Perhaps a more practical way of stressing the same truth would be to frame the growth of knowledge (all knowledge, not only scientific) as a continual transition from problems to better problems, rather than from problems to solutions or from theories to better theories. This
David Deutsch
#84. History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.
Babette Deutsch
#85. If you can't embrace failure, or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful.
Donny Deutsch
#86. The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?
Donny Deutsch
#87. Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.
Karl Deutsch
#88. The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
David Deutsch
#89. The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
David Deutsch
#90. It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.
Helene Deutsch
#91. The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.
Armin Joseph Deutsch
#92. After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
Helene Deutsch
#93. mechanical reinterpretations of human affairs not only lack explanatory power, they are morally wrong as well, for in effect they deny the humanity of the participants, casting them and their ideas merely as side effects of the landscape. Diamond
David Deutsch
#94. Whenever a wide range of variant theories can account equally well for the phenomenon they are trying to explain, there is no reason to prefer one of them over the others, so advocating a particular one in preference to the others is irrational.
David Deutsch
#95. Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.
Donny Deutsch
#96. My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?
Barry Deutsch
#97. I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
David Deutsch
#98. Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
David Deutsch
#99. To me, it's always what's next and I think that's what drives most very successful people. It's never about the money. I mean that's a way of keeping score. It's about achievement and it's about winning a game and it's about upping the ante.
Donny Deutsch
#100. Any serious analysis of Marxism must begin with the controversy over whether he is a humanist champion of free will or a determinist. Because Marxian writings on the subject often are so contradictory, it is impossible to know for sure.
Kenneth Deutsch
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