Quotes About Organization

Every one of our conscious brains is woven from subtle physical ingredients that somehow enable us to take advantage of the profound organization of our mathematically underpinned universe-so that we, in turn, are capable of some kind of direct access, through that Platonic quality of 'understanding', to the very ways in which our universe behaves at many different levels.

It would seem that it is in some kind of combination of top-down and bottom-up organization that we must expect to find the most successful AI systems.

The idea that scientific method is the only method of discovering the truth has a lot to be said for it, if you mean by truth how the world ultimately is as a system of organised matter, but I defend cognitive dualism: that world can be understood completely in another way which also has its truths which are not translatable into the truths of science. So we have to look at the different ways we organise this material that science explains for us.

Everything was perfectly sorted, classified, and slotted in his compartmentalized mind and books. Washington's contemporaries recognized that this compulsive note taking, this itch to record his every action, went to the very essence of this well-regulated man.

To form a new government requires infinite care and unbounded attention, for if the foundation is badly laid, the superstructure must be bad.

Having created an empire of unfathomable complexity, he was smart enough to see that he had to submerge his identity in the organization.

As part of this studious approach, he recorded all his golf scores in thick little books, with names, dates, and places included.

Hamilton sketched out this phantom force in microscopic detail, producing comprehensive charts for regiments, battalions, and companies. In a typical passage, Hamilton was to write, "A company is subdivided equally into two platoons, a platoon into two sections and a section into two squads, a squad consisting of four files of three or six files of two."89 He assigned ranks to officers, set up recruiting stations, stocked arsenals with ammunition, and drew up numerous regulations.

al-Qaidas ledare utarbetade en författning och förordningar, som beskrev organisationens utopiska målsättning i tydliga ordalag: Att upprätta sanningen, utplåna ondskan och upprätta en islamsk nation.

Be on as few pieces of paper as it is possible for a human being to be.

We need to triage those six hundred places.

then the other guys will come out right as well, assuming they've all got two ears and so on, like I said. And bring me a square of tile off the store's floor and one of those smocks

I think about the apocalyptic mess I've created in the trolley. "Organization happens to be one of my fortes." "Fort," he says. "What?" I say. "Apparently it's pronounced fort. Not fort-tay. One syllable, as in Knox.

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Mulder ever found anything he wanted. But he always seemed to.

And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

It was truly extraordinary how many men there were who felt the need of organizing something, of being important.

It is the wide sense of the word that is nowadays forced upon us, for clearly it is no longer possible to think of politics except as the politics of culture, the organization of human life toward some end or other, toward the modification of sentiments, which is to say the quality of human life.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.