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“Systems cannot be adopted; they can only be developed.”

— Haresh Sippy

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

— Edward Stevenson

“We have a system that is designed to fail us all, and we all do nothing about it.”

— Rob Al'dred

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.”

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“Yet, standardization only leads to sameness, not necessarily quality, and rarely to excellence (p. 9).”

— Thomas Newkirk

“The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.”

— Geralin Thomas

“Approach making changes to a complex system with extreme caution: what you get may be the opposite of what you expect.”

— Josh Kaufman

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and…

— Evgeny Morozov

“the conceptual integrity of a system determines its ease of use.”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.”

— Donald A. Norman