“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”
Source: Life Is Worth Living
“Life is a sum of our choices.
You do something and i react, you do it long enough, my reaction changes.
Education, childhood memories, disappointments, some of us are helpless to our experiences.
One single moment in your life could mean the very difference between me and you.
Selah”
Source: The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
“Ah, crap. Only the lowest beasts would ever harm a vending machine. Doesn't it understand my functional yet artistic beauty?”
Source: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Vol. 1
“A bear and a vending machine in a small room. Of course, if he doesn't start talking, we won't get anywhere.”
Source: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Vol. 1
“Transcending Time
As an infant
The waves
Do rock me
As a young woman
The waves
Do hit me
As an old woman
The waves
Do move me...
And when i am
Ancient
i ride them”
Source: Sheer Bandages: A Fragile Offering: A person should not bury a talent-no matter how small.
“There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“The point was made many times that scientific management benefitted workers not at all, perhaps most clearly by a short statement by John P. Frey, editor of the International Molders Journal and participant in a bipartisan survey of the claims of scientific management,
'If generally applied the craftsmen would pass out of existence, and the workers would become dependent for their existence upon the scanty and insignificant industrial knowledge and experience afforded them by their limited opportunities, regulated by those who in addition to their ownership of machinery, had also acquired possession of craft knowledge and the skilled workers’ methods.”
Source: Prophets of Order
“In economy, cash is king. But it will be a great king if it is in the hands of the people who can change the world.”
Source: The One Best Way to manage a business according to science
“Move beyond the traditional goal, habit, and strengths-management hysteria. Goals, habits and strengths are means, not ends. Don't turn means into ends unto themselves.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“The “ideology of Taylorism all but ensured a workplace divided against itself, both in space and in practice, with a group of managers controlling how work was done and their workers merely performing that work,” he writes. “It became increasingly clear . . . from the distance between the top and the bottom rungs of the ‘ladder,’ that some workers were never going to join the upper layers of management. For some, work was always, frankly, going to suck.”