Quotes About Structure

The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It

carefully constructed, rigorously tested portfolio structure and decision-making process that are clearly defensive.

In February of 1921, the Yankees purchased 10 acres of property from the estate of William Waldorf Astoria at 161st St and River Ave in the west Bronx, directly across the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds. Yankees owner Rupert and Tillinghast Huston announced the construction of baseball's first triple-decked structure. With a capacity of over 70,000, it would also be the first structure to be called a "stadium.

Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity--of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal structures of imagination, which exist because of the existence of structural violence.

In fact, it often happens that, at the very top of organizations, apparently crucial positions can go unfilled for long periods of time without there being any noticeable effect—even, on the organization itself.

one could certainly make the argument that there's a deep structural affinity between wasteful extravagance and bullshit...

As Max Weber long ago pointed out, once one sets up a genuinely effective bureaucracy, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.

If it is possible to have monarchs, aristocracies, slavery and extreme forms of patriarchal domination, even without a state (as it evidently was); and if it's equally possible to maintain complex irrigation systems, or develop science and abstract philosophy without a state (as it also appears to be), then what do we actually learn about human history by establishing that one political entity is what we would like to describe as a 'state' and another isn't?

Bir "devlet" dairesinde fiilen görevli memurlar gurubu, gerekli maddi gereçler ve dosyalarla birlikte "daireyi" oluÅŸturur. Özel giriÅŸimde "daire" genellikle "ofis" diye adland?r?l?r.

We try to elevate the empowerment of our people over the organizational niceties of structure and process except to the extent that those structural and process features work to empower our people

the physical structure of the Songhay village … consists of series of open spaces, each encircled by a cluster of thatched houses, which are interconnected by a labyrinth of lanes and narrow paths … as in many African societies, the Songhay apply metaphors of pathways to social relationships. For example, the reason for giving a gift to an in-law may be expressed as: "So that the path between us does not die".

Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, arguably the greatest discovery in biology in the twentieth century, famously said, "If you want to understand function, study structure.

Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

God ever geometrizes.

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

when god creat the world, first he must think abour architects

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet