Best Hierarchies Quotes
57 Hierarchies quotes by 49 unique authors
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams'…
— Bill Drayton
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In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the…
— Carl Sagan
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One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not…
— Carl Sagan
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All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily…
— Herman Melville
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Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction…
— Michel Houellebecq
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There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within…
— Murray Bookchin
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Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.
— Niklaus Wirth
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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
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In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st…
— Will Cotton
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One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the…
— Clive Barker
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As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
— Gerhard Richter
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... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture…
— Edward T. Hall
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Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what…
— Mary Douglas
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
— Gary Hamel
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
— Gary Hamel
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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved…
— Dennis Ritchie
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... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"…
— Edward Said
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As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The…
— Bruce Chatwin
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…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
— Bell Hooks
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Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds…
— Alain de Botton
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No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will…
— Dejan Stojanovic
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of…
— Laura Carmichael
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Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various…
— Tyler Cowen
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It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary…
— Max Heindel
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