Hardened Quote by Susan Sontag

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

— John Ashbery

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

— Esther Dyson

Sensitivity leads to awareness, knowledge and act. It is important to be sensible than knowledgeable.

— Melchor Lim

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

— Ernest Sosa

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

— T. S. Eliot

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Whoever considers the nature of our government with discernment will see that though obstacles and delays will frequently stand in the way of the…

— Ron Chernow

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

— Groucho Marx

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

— Kenzo Tange

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

— Paul Cezanne

“I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr