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Kick the can down the road

If you kick the can down the road, you delay a decision in hopes that the problem or issue will go away or somebody else will make the decision later.

Kick The Can Down The Road - Idiom Definition - Usingenglish.com #decisions #hope #road #issues #problem

Sullivan and the birth of form follows function

The maxim “form follows function” was born in 1896 when the American archi-tect Louis Sullivan wrote an article titled, “The Tall Office Building Artistically…

The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization #buildings

Artifacts have proper functions

notion of (technical) artifact. We are aware that many such notions have been discussed in the literature, but the one by Baker [20] works well for us…

Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective #artifacts #objects #notion #function

Code is not necessarily an artifact

In the light of these observations, a code is not necessarily an artifact. If we acci- dentally delete a line of code, the result might still be a computer…

Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective #code #artifacts #computer-program #program #computer-code

There is no computation inside a computer

In an email discussion I had with Riccardo Manzotti, he writes: We use logic and computation to build artifacts—from chairs to spaceships. We need logic and…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #computation #logic #metaphor #artifacts

God is impossible, therefore He exists

‘Well,’ I laughed, ‘I certainly don’t know God, and frankly I’m inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #God #universe #things #idea