Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
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Howard Pattee
All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change.. Now, though, we live in...
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Nick Harkaway
Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out... Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our...
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Max Stirner
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
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Albert Einstein
More Quotes By Grace Murray Hopper
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty
It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.