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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

At Xerox, process owners were assigned to all the key processes. This resulted in a cost savings of $200 million per year

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Mandelbrot created the word (noun and adjective, English and French) fractal.

There must be truths, that is, that cannot be proved—and Gödel could prove it.

Information is entropy. This was the strangest and most powerful notion of all.

And where did logic belong? To psychology or to computer science? Surely not just to philosophy.

The birth of information theory came with its ruthless sacrifice of meaning—the very quality that gives information its value and its purpose. Introducing

I do think that it is impossible to do Christian theology with integrity in America without asking the question, What has the gospel to do with the black struggle for liberation?

Appeals to reason and religion do not change the balance of power, because both are used to defend the interests of oppressors.

towards them. The other two froze and did the same. Harris would never forget the horror he felt under the gaze of the three pairs of sharp, wicked-looking eyes. It wasn't

nearly mad before you cleaned

In contemporary psychological language, efficiency is a primary mode of denial.

It is significant, he said after a pause, that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it be better if more people were slackers?

The funny thing about the heart, there is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

For all the Fathers and Daddy's that are not with us Happy Father's Day. You are missed and loved.

Your triggers are your responsibility. It isn't the worlds obligation to tiptoe around you.

You have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

The wisdom of a woman lies in her sensuality.

People have called me crazy; but the question is not yet settled, whether craziness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.