“No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands.” Quote by John Daido Loori
“The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.” ProblemSolutionsResourcesDefinitionsScarceScarce Resources Author:Esther Dyson
“The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.” MindHas BeensRealStatesPayCenturyMaterialsPropertyUniversityDuesRationalState Of MindHeritageLocationSalaryRational ThoughtZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.” HumansHardReasonOughtStupidity Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.” ValuesAbilityLevelsTechnologyGenerationsInformationDependsIntellectualTasksMachinesIncreaseManageComplexityContrastInformation Technology Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.” FactsAmericaProgressGenerationsDocumentsTestedWork In Progress Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?” IfsMeanEndsRunningPurposeFunRealizingLateMethodLaysSatisfactionDenyPracticalsToo LateBreastsJustifyTapeStoppingEnds Justify The MeansSatisfaction In Life Author:Walt Kelly
“Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.” ProcessQualityFindingsLateAimImprovementToo LateThrowingInspection Author:W. Edwards Deming
“If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social landscape overnight. In fact, that's how lasting revolutions are made- not by the raised arm of the masses, not by the military seizure of power, not by the political coup d'etat, but by individuals asserting who they are one at a time.” IfsMenMadeFactsPoliticalIndividualSocialMilitaryRevolutionArmsMassMen And WomenRaisedEvery ManPursueLandscapeLastingCoupsSeizures Author:Richard Bode
“Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.” NamesEasyGeniusProductionsRecalls Author:E. O. Wilson