I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and… — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This one is for the boys with the boomin system Top down AC with the coolin system — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. — George Will Copy Share Image
I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they… — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
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![“He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da1/jeffrey-rosen-13180_behalf_he-s-louis-brandais-so-suspicious-of-big_113363.jpg)
