Wolle's Dictionary of Research Quotes

We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to: 1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, 2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, 3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

Knowledge is like money - if it's not going anywhere it's not worth anything.

Knowledge shared is power squared.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

The artifact is to cultural evolution what the gene is to biological evolution.

The linguistic root of communication is the Latin verb 'communico' which doesn't mean 'to communicate' but instead means 'to share something with someone, to take or receive a part of, to partake, to participate in

As more people are driven by intrinsic motivation at work, their work environment will be increasingly important.

Through action within communities [...] we make and remake both our language and our knowledge.

Social relations, often established for other purposes, constitute channels that reduce the amount of time and investment required to gather information and knowledge.

Design Science produces artifacts and artificial phenomena

Design Science attempts to create things that serve human purposes. It is technology-oriented. Its products are assessed against criteria of value or utility -- does it work? Is it an improvement?

IT research builds and evaluates constructs, models, methods, and instantiations. It also theorizes about these artifacts and attempts to justify these theories. Building and evaluating IT artifacts have design science intent. Theorizing and justifying have natural science intent.

IT research is the study of artifacts as they are adapted to their changing environments and to changes in their underlying components

Information technology is technology used to acquire and process information in support of human purposes. It is typically instantiated as IT systems - complex organizations of hardware, software, procedures, data, and people, developed to address tasks faced by individuals and groups, typically within some organizational setting.

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.