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In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.

Statement on the July 1943 bombings of Hamburg. "The Valour and the Horror: The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War". Book by Merrily Weisbord and ‎Merilyn Simonds Mohr, p. 107, 1991.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

"Problems and Theorems in Analysis I: Series. Integral Calculus. Theory of Functions".

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

"How Willful Ignorance Doomed HealthCare.gov" by Clay Shirky, www.politico.com. November 24, 2013.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

"Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999". Book by Benny Morris, 1999.

Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.

David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.13, Profile Books

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.272