“One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." One study of 30 California counties over several decades found that, for every 10% increase in road capacity, traffic increased by 9% within four years.” TryingYearsFoundStudyFourBuildingCapacityIncreaseClimateDecadesCuresCaliforniaFour YearsTrafficBeltsCountyObesityCongestionTraffic Congestion Author:David B. Sandalow
“Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.” WayTryingIdeasTodayDifferencesDealsNovelEmpowermentProgramIncreaseManagementEdgesValuableCorporationsEmployeeOriginalityMarketplaceImplementingDelegationEmployee Recognition Book:Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and
“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.” IfsTryingEndsSeemsFightingPathProgressPossibilityIncreaseRestrictionEntropyNew Possibilities Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .” KnowsTryingBigsGovernmentGroupsExampleBrotherHusbandPercentIncreasePopulationKicksDependentDo You KnowSeventiesPercentagesDemographicsYour HusbandProvidersUnmarriedMarried Women Author:Phyllis Schlafly