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Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. [2]Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, [3] and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.
G. K. Chesterton#Chesterton's fence — George Makepeace 02:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC) I've referenced it a few times in software development contexts. Always surprised to rediscover it isn't already a standalone article Inopinatus 18:31, 14 September 2019 (UTC) It is cited in dwmkerr's Hacker Laws page on GitHub.
The lesson here: If you haven't actually read a work, don't purport to quote from it, or your assumptions about what it meant (if you even get the out-of-context words right at all) are apt to be embarrassingly incorrect. As the old joke goes: "Never assume, for when you do, you make an ass out of u and me."
Chesterton's fence states that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood. Child's law states that the space-charge limited current in a plane-parallel diode varies directly as the three-halves power of the anode voltage and inversely as the square of the distance separating the cathode and ...
Heretics is a collection of 20 essays by English writer G. K. Chesterton published by John Lane in 1905. [1] In it, Chesterton quotes at length and argues extensively against atheist Joseph McCabe and delivers diatribes about his close personal friend and intellectual rival George Bernard Shaw, as well as about Friedrich Nietzsche, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and an array of other major ...
On Wikipedia, at least, simply saying something doesn't make it so.This applies in disagreements and arguments, both to content and sources. Asserting something without explanation or demonstration is known as an empty assertion.
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The quote has a large almost universally agreed meaning of "You should be cautious of the company you keep. Associating with those of low reputation may not only lower your own but also lead you astray by the faulty assumptions, premises and data of the unscrupulous."