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"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."
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"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"
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"Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually."
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"Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications."
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
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"I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary."
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"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."
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"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."
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"Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions."
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"It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme."
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"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."
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"A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict."
Inequality


"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"
Design


"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
Nature


"Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards."
Being


"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
Politics


"Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear."
Money


"As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out."
People


"Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful."
People


"Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power."
Power


"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."
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