Quotes About Structure

The police department is a vast organization, and a detective is only an organization man.

A child domain always contains the complete domain name of parent

in active directory domain lingo, a group of computers that shares a single namespace and DNS structure is called a domain. a group of domains linked in parent-child relationships (also like the roots of a tree) is called a tree.

For example, dissonance occurs in non-human animals (e.g., Egan, Bloom, et al., 2010; Egan, Santos, et al., 2007), suggesting that the metacognitive structure of self is not necessary.

I have found it shocking how often communication across hierarchical and functional boundaries is faulty.

Organizational analyses that show separate boxes for "culture" and "strategy" are making a fundamental conceptual error. Strategy is an integral part of the culture.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

All forms of perception, according to Husserl, presuppose an intentional structure of consciousness, and it is in this intentional structure that the primordial link between consciousness and the world is to be sought.

The argument against recursive procedures was always an efficiency argument: non-re-entrant code could be executed so much more efficiently. But with the advent of multiprogramming another need for felxible storage allocation has emerged. And if there are still machines in which the use of recursive routines is punished by too heavy a penalty, then I would venture the opinion that the structure of such a machine should now be called somewhat old-fashioned.

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.

This [double helix] structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest…. It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.

His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.

As it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he couldn't help but shudder: Beneath the splendor--the filigreed blossoms, the microscopic stars--was a ghastly inevitability; crystals could not escape their embedded blueprints any more than humans could. Everything hewed to a rigidity of pattern, the certainty of death.

Ordnung muss sein.

To be in love was to be dazed twenty times a morning: by the latticework of frost on his windshield; by a feather loosed from his pillow; by a soft, pink rim of light over the hills. He slept three or four hours a night. Some days he felt as if he were about to peel back the surface of the Earth—the trees standing frozen on the hills, the churning face of the inlet—and finally witness what lay beneath, the structure under there, the fundamental grid.

It was divided into ten cohorts, which were in turn subdivided into six centuries commanded by centurions;

A novel is a container for 80,000 to 90,000 words and you might see it as a jelly mould. You pour them all in and hope they'll set.

Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.