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Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant ra~onale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

Anatol Rapoport

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Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. … The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.

john carroll

— p. 149 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))

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[Software engineering is] the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software .

— IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology,” IEEE std 610.12-1990, 1990.

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