“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"” WorldYearsWellsThreeAsksIndividualSocialReligiousSimpleBusinessConflictYears AgoOrganizationThirdsAffairManageBiosphereYear OneDisarray Author:Dee Hock
“The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.” PeopleYearsThreeLevelsTvsPoliticianCostYears AgoThirdsDrivingCandidatesBuyingAdsThree TimesCampaigningWatching Tv Author:Dick Morris
“Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.” PeopleYearsMaySaidOrderActingCasesWorryCuttingCarPossibilityYears AgoThirdsBiggerIraqDebateGenuineBreadSecureGasAfghanistanDozenInvasionShrinkingInsistingPetrol Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development. I came back from New York yesterday and I took the fastest train in the country, the Acela. My wife and I took the New York-Boston train sixty years ago - it wasn't called the Acela then - and I think it's improved by about fifteen minutes since then. Any other country in the world would be about half the time. In fact when it's riding along the Connecticut turnpike it's barely keeping up with traffic, which is just scandalous.” ThinkingWorldYearsCountryFactsHappensWould BeAmericaSocialViewsHalfWifeEconomicMinutesNew YorkDevelopmentYears AgoThirdsTrainMy WifePoint Of ViewYesterdayRidingSixtyOther CountriesFifteenTrafficBostonThird WorldSocial DevelopmentScandalousConnecticutThird World Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsTwoCountryStatesTurnsCultureChristUnitedPartyHalfUnited StatesCoupleThousandProtectGunYears AgoThirdsPopulationUsaExpectingThousand YearsGun Culture Author:Noam Chomsky
“Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.” YearsLongCitiesMagicMonthsMetsPaperYears AgoThirdsDullPapersMagicianWednesday Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.” WantYearsDreamAgeAblePastCertainSpaceMembersYears AgoCatThirdsUniversalListsAstronautSpace Shuttle Book:The Gum Thief: A Novel Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel
“Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.” YearsGovernmentBitsMoneyLordYears AgoThirdsTwenties Book:The Will Rogers book Source: The Will Rogers book
“The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.” FeelsYearsKindLittlesStillsI CanMightHoursHalfProgressTreeBuildingTenDiseaseNewsYears AgoAll ThingsThirdsAbuseComplainingMilesAll KindsScarFeel BetterBentGood NewsJumpingCravingEightyAlrightCrookedLiverTissuesBetter NowOverdoseJumping OffScar TissueLiver Disease Author:Anthony Kiedis