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Quote by Nancy Leveson

“Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.”

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Nancy Leveson is a renowned computer scientist whose research focuses on software engineering and system safety. Her work is significant in understanding the security issues in the design, development, and maintenance of complex systems. more

“In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

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Author:George Orwell

“On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.”

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Author:James Otis

“Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.”

Numbers Subordinates Prestige Administrators

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.”

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Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.”

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Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.”

Foundation Cheating Mutual

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.”

Disappointment Future Success

Author:George S. Patton

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