Books Quote by Charles Hugh Smith

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

— Noam Chomsky

“It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and…

— Matt Mullenweg

“once we wrapped the globe in endless circles of wires crossing the deserts and beneath the oceans, decentralization was not only possible, but inevitable.”

— Kevin Kelly

“Decentralized means learning cannot easily be curtailed by autocratic governments and is considerably more immune to socioeconomic upheaval.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

“Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized…

— Charles Perrow

There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.

— Peter Levine

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,…

— George Gilder

Traditional solutions as they stand are designed to aid the centralized party. That's how it always has been. It will continue to be for…

— Spencer Dinwiddie

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

— Ba

True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and…

— Peter Kropotkin