Anecdotally, 90% of the time spent on software development is making up good names for things. It seems that even if all philosophers do is make up names for concepts that will be later needed in science, then they’re doing important work.
More than 99% of all statistics are made up… I know—I programmed a ‘make up statistics’ function which produced a randomly generated statistic every few microseconds, and ran it for a year.
Anecdotally, 90% of the time spent on software development is making up good names for things. It seems that even if all philosophers do is make up names for concepts that will be later needed in science, then they’re doing important work.
HI, I’m a support software developer. Can I ask where exactly that came from?
Also this
Possibly related is this:
Tim Bray, quoting Phil Karlton. This is as close to a definitive source as there is.
Urban legend, I think. 87% of all statistics are made up.
More than 99% of all statistics are made up… I know—I programmed a ‘make up statistics’ function which produced a randomly generated statistic every few microseconds, and ran it for a year.
(not really)