once we wrapped the globe in endless circles of wires…

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

— Norman Cousins

That which is possible is inevitable.

— William Carlos Williams

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Just as order works itself from out of the chaos, decentralization and diversification is able to unite the world.”

— VD

I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters.…

— Murray Bookchin

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

— Noam Chomsky

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

— Karl E. Weick

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

— Erich Fromm

“Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Decentralization demands both vertical and horizontal deconcentration of services, wealth and power to the long neglected at no political cost

— Ba

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield…

— Steven Levy

From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant…

— Kenneth Arrow