"Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well."

-- James P. Womack

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“A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this”
“I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.”
“There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.183, Penguin
“Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.”
“I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.”
“Dead is the travel of all our travels.”

Source : "Thinkings" by Antoni Lange,
“There's a point when you have to stop fightin' the whole world.”
“Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.”

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