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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
John Tuley
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott 
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin
55% of people like this quote
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
John Tuley
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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
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Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
Max Bill
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
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