“Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” IfsWorldFirstsHeartImportantEndsHandsPoliticalValuesIndividualSocialQualityProductsProgramStructureWork OutHead And HeartZen Motorcycle MaintenanceSocial Values Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.” GivingEnoughAbleGrowsProgramStructureArchitectureConfusionPuddles Author:Douglas Crockford
“The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.” MindReasonComputerProgramStructureFormal Author:John Searle
“You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.” CountryHelpingActionChangedProgramIndiaStructureAffirmative ActionAffirmativeUntouchables Author:Barack Obama
“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.” StatesAmericaPastUnitedUnited StatesTakenGenerationsProgramStructureWelfareSteadyExpansionOver The PastDisintegrationWelfare ProgramsPast Generations Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan