Quotes About Authority

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

The culture at Atari was a natural outgrowth of [Nolan] Bushnell's personality. But it was not simply self-indulgent. It was based on a philosophy that drew from the hippie movement and would help define Silicon Valley. At it's core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired and creativity should be nurtured.

Jobs barked at him.

Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good politicians. At

And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy.

At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.

Sometimes it's nice to be in the hands of a control freak.

Stop the train, this isn't going to work," he told Woolard. "This company is in shambles, and I don't have time to wet-nurse the board. So I need all of you to resign. Or else I'm going to resign and not come back on Monday.

If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.

That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass. I don't kiss everybody's.

Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

key challenge for managers is how to strike a balance between being decisive and being collegial

Even before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. "I was kind of bored for the first few years, so I occupied myself by getting into trouble." It also soon became clear that Jobs, by both nature and nurture, was not disposed to accept authority.

Gocemos del Papado, ya que Dios nos lo ha concedido

His success came from questioning conventional wisdom, challenging authority, and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane.

This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein's moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish. He had demonstrated this as an impertinent young thinker, and he proclaimed the principle clearly in 1931. "I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality," he said.69

Para castigarme por mi desprecio a la autoridad, el Destino me ha convertido en autoridad a mí mismo.

The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when there are profound differences in the values of the societies it attempts to integrate."3 Oppenheimer thus became the first of many postwar realists to disparage Einstein for being allegedly too idealistic.

Una fe insensata en la autoridad es el peor enemigo de la verdad.

Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis, he snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants.

El respeto ciego por la autoridad es el mayor enemigo de la verdad.

He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants.

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57