Quotes About Uniformity

One reason to format the code in a uniform way is so that nobody can "own" a piece of code just by formatting it in his or her private way.

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

Where time passes uniformly, in interplanetary space, things do not fall.

Of course it was still odd, but when everyone does the same odd thing, it seems almost normal.

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

Ni pisma nema, ni poruke iz daljine. Kao što, nažalost, nema ni?eg lepog ni neobi?nog ni uzbudljivog, nego samo jednoli?an život, bez ?uda i iznena?enja, satkan od prostih i oskudnih doga?aja, neodre?enih i nejasnih, a mu?nih i suvoparnih dužnosti i obaveza.

There is a kind of dreary monotony about there characters, an American sameness about them that never varies and is always dull.

colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity…with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time... ~ Jack Kerouac

The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter's rules, that needs to be implemented every time.

If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.

They push through a fire door into another section of the U-Stor-It, which looks the same as the last one (everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions

They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture. The

one (everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions now).

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Thoreau's philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you've read about them all.

The Armenian genocide, the massacres of the Pontic Greeks and the agreed 'exchanges' of Greek and Turkish populations after the sack of Smyrna illustrated with a terrible clarity the truth of the Archbishop of Aleppo's warning: when a multi-ethnic empire mutated into a nation state, the result could only be carnage. It was as if, for the sake of a spuriously modern uniformity, the basest instincts of ordinary men were unleashed in a kind of tribal bloodletting.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.