"Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism."

-- Nicholas Negroponte

#Order Quotes #Organization Quotes #Self Quotes

“I tell my assistant â€œI'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother meâ€”
“I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'”
“Basketball is basketball.”
“I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.”
“Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.”
“There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death”

Source : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.24, VM eBooks
“Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.”
“It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.”

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