Quotes About Standardization

No system in history has been more relentless [than capitalism] in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, devouring the resources of whole regions, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Frederick Taylor

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor's classic The Principles of Scientific Management enshrined the machine model for several generations. This approach to management rests on three premises: 1 In principle it is possible to know all you need to know to be able to plan what to do. 2 Planners and doers should be separated. 3 "There is but one right way." A manager was a programmer of robot workers. The essence of management was to create perfect plans and tell people precisely

CIOs have to be able to lay out a clear path in concert with the business leader - I used to make the business guy responsible for the apps and force them to answer the question of why they feel they need non-standard apps when they know that's how the costs skyrocket.

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Pensamiento Toyota: gestión diaria normal = mejora de procesos

Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

In Marx's view, what was awry with the prevailing notion of equality was that it was too abstract. It did not pay sufficient attention to the individuality of things and people... It was capitalism that standardised people, not socialism.

With human inspectors, it's difficult to get even the same person to make consistent judgments.

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

But I'm old now and Ward has made himself rich and powerful. He has the resources to ensure that one day he'll perfect his standardising system and if that happens, instead of a thousand Wards there will be a hundred thousand, a million, a billion. He'll grow exponentially until there's nothing and no one else left. Just Ward, Ward, Ward in every house, in every town and every city, in every country in the world. Forever.

The era of mass education and the standardization of the English language left such expressions as marks of uneducated people in the American South

One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast?food model of quality assurance when they should be adopting the Michelin model instead. The future for education is not in standardizing but in customizing; not in promoting groupthink and "deindividuation" but in cultivating the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort. For the future, education must be Elemental.

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform.