Quotes About Bottom-up

top-down is usually irreversible, so mistakes tend to stick, whereas bottom-up is gradual and incremental, with creation and destruction along the way

Rather than top-down innovation by some of the biggest companies in the world, we're seeing bottom-up innovation by countless individuals, including amateurs, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.

We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

They suggest that there are two contrasting types of approaches to solving environmental problems, which we may term the bottom-up and the top-down approach.

If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Now technology gives you a chance to help organize. You don't have to wait for either the inefficiency or the corruption. You don't have to wait for government. You can actually self-organize and build institutions bottom up.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

Basically you start this process from the bottom up. In other words, you check your balances in sub-ledgers or journals to be sure they are correct.

Libertarian communists shun any particularist atomization into small units, communes, and workers' councils, and aspire to a federalist coordination, one which is both close-knit and freely consented to. Rejecting bureaucratic and authoritarian planning, they believe in the need for coherent and democratic planning, inspired from the bottom up.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

In particular, Brand has been constant in his commitment to science, which he refers to as the only "true news"; in his commitment to bottom-up democracy (with a small d); and in his relentless curiosity.