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“Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.”

People Kind Certain Order Responsibility Function Mechanism Regulation Enforcement Delegates Rules And Regulations

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”

Ifs Body Order Animal Team Conditions Machines Function Structure Mechanism Laborers

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.”

Way Has Beens Ends America Form Results Function Institutions Republic Mechanism Presidency Symptoms Decadence Cabal

Author:T. D. Allman

“This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.”

Goal Creative Achieve Negative Function Unhappiness Mechanism Within You Achieving Goals

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.”

Giving Should Children Parent Brain Cases Subjects Machines Function Limitation Substitutes Passages Mechanism Breakdown Educator Passage Of Time Inexorable

Book:Speech and Brain Mechanisms

Source: Speech and Brain Mechanisms

“The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.”

People Ifs Humans Reason Problem Care Emotion Products Exercise Machines Treats Function Compromise Goods Mechanism Admirable Inappropriate Human Emotions

Book:The Gone-Away World

Source: The Gone-Away World