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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individuals contribution far more than the individual himself.
We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.
If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.