"Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload."

-- Russell L. Ackoff

#Data Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Trying Quotes

“When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.”

Source : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.
“We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road”
“Ceremony is all backbone.”
“The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.184, Da Capo Press
“Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!”
“Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.”

Source : C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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