Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.
The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control
Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept
Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.
Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests. . . the reason for the wax is that the E. T. S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.