Quotes About Systemization

that aspect which a whole population assumes when organized for a mechanical purpose.

His entire life was probably sorted into neat little columns.

Free association and holistic thought have given way to compartmentalisation and bureaucracy.

We are told that standardized testing must be imposed to make sure students meet a set of standardized criteria so they will later be able to fit into a world that is itself increasingly standardized. Never are we asked, of course, whether it's good to standardrize children (sorry, I mean students), knowledge, or the larger world.

When someone doesn't acknowledge the miraculous conditions of the cosmos, and instead attributes all the systemization and orderliness that we observe all to thermal energy, as if we should expect energy has some innate potential to create orderliness, it stinks of a kind of repression of the profound for no other reason than to avoid the philosophical implications.

In 1911 Taylor wrote: "In the past, the man has been first; in the future, the system must be first." Taylor's prediction has come to pass.

The more acute the systemization of consciousness is, the more sharply it constellates the contents of the unconscious.

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

everything is "organized" with optimizing intent

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.