“as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.” MadeInformationOfficeFunctionSettingSettingsSpeakersParliamentRequest Book:The House of Commons at Work Source: The House of Commons at Work
“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.” ThinkingShouldMindIdeasEvilRoomsFiveBecomingQuietEatingFunctionDrinkingVariousSettingSettingsDesirableEating And DrinkingQuiet Room Author:Dogen
“There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was approved which has to do with the role and the place and the function of the institution of traditional leadership. Now that legislation, not the Communal Land Rights Bill, provides for the setting up of particular committees that would work together with the elected municipalities.” TwoTogetherRolesPiecesRightsLandParticularFunctionInstitutionsBillsSettingTraditionalSettingsRelatedWorking TogetherCommitteesLegislationApprovedMunicipality Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.” WayHumansProblemSpiritTurnsIndividualHuman BeingsCasesWorstDesignMembersFunctionSettingSettingsOne WaySoftwareBehaviourPacksSoftware Design Author:Jaron Lanier