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A specification that describes how to calculate a carbon intensity for software applications.
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Issue #349 Remove the (wrong) quote from Peter Drucker #350

Closed bertysentry closed 1 year ago

bertysentry commented 1 year ago

As per issue #349 we replace the wrong quote from Peter Drucker in the introduction with a real quote from Lord Kelvin:

"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

See Popular Lectures and Addresses vol. 1 (1889) ‘Electrical Units of Measurement’, delivered 3 May 1883

Secondary benefit: Peter Drucker was an expert in management. Kelvin was a scientist. 😉

Henry-WattTime commented 1 year ago

WG: Quote is long and complex Odd to have a justification quote at the beginning of a technical spec In introduction or guidelines may be more appropriate Common in thesis to have quotes, nice effect. Why am I reading it Short version is more pithy. Action item: Can we find a shorter but still relevant quote?

bertysentry commented 1 year ago

@Henry-WattTime Let's not spend too much time on this. We can simply remove the quote if you guys are okay with that.

atg-abhishek commented 1 year ago

@Henry-WattTime is the decision then to reject this PR or do we want to leave it open till we find a shorter quote?

bertysentry commented 1 year ago

@atg-abhishek I can update the PR to simply remove the quote. Makes it easier for everybody. Just let me know. Thanks!

Henry-WattTime commented 1 year ago

WG: yes, remove the quote for now. We can replace it with something else later.

atg-abhishek commented 1 year ago

Sounds good @bertysentry - do you want to make the update to this PR? Thanks!

bertysentry commented 1 year ago

Quote removed!

bertysentry commented 1 year ago

Please merge 😊

Henry-WattTime commented 1 year ago

WG: approved