“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.” ShouldHumansMayImportantReasonIndividualForceDifficultGrowthPrinciplesDependsCivilizationProveEssentialsTasksLimitationBowsPreservationHuman Reason Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.” WayIdeasCharacterUseRealityLanguageLosesDependsMessagesTasksStriveCommunicateObjectivesDescriptionScopeDiscernmentOur WordsSuspended Author:Niels Bohr
“Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.” MayChildrenLittlesHoursTeachingDependsTasksImprovementEach DayNecksLengthApplicationVases Book:The People Source: The People
“Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.” IfsDoeTodayDependsTasksJailPrisoner Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.” WellsTwoFormProcessEnvironmentProduceDependsEvolutionTasksTestsVarietySchemesSimplestGenerator Author:Herbert Simon
“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
“Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.” FeelsMayTwoMatterHappensCareTurnsForceSituationKeysDependsFindingsTasksMercyAlternativesMeaninglessConfronting Author:Richard Nelson Bolles
“My task as a pastor is to remind people of the need for balance. If someone wants to stress personal union with Christ, I remind them of the need for knowledge as well. If they want to stress knowledge, I tell them about their need to depend on Christ.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsWellsChristDependsBalanceTasksStressUnionsPastor Author:Mark Dever
“The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.” WayRealityFacesDependsTasksConsistentDaily Life Author:James Howard Kunstler