Resisted Standardization Quote by Robert D. Austin

“He was the standard against which all others were measured.”

— Rebecca Flanders

“Standards only move in one direction. At the beginning of the world, standards were established and they've been slipping ever since.”

— Edward Stevenson

“Too often our standard is less an adherence to a standard and more the elimination of one.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“His argument was that a great engineer would be remembered only if he teamed with a great marketer, and this required him to commit…

— Walter Isaacson

“There was little that common sense and hard work couldn't accomplish.”

— Karen Hawkins

“His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Isn’t it a strange thing,” he asked Barton, “that in every period of social unrest men have the notion that they can pass a…

— Amity Shlaes

“He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference mattered.”

— Katherine Lampe

“He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy—something Americans do particularly well.”

— Robert L. O'Connell

“the system is not designed to generate the most rigorous standards. Only”

— Ted Koppel

“Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The plain fact was he knew how to do it intuitively, but he could not articulate what it was that he did.”

— Eugene L. Lowry