"But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events."

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Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

Manuel De Landa

#Decision Quotes #Information Quotes #Events Quotes

“I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times”
“If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.”

Source : "A No-Frills Summit". "TIME" Magazine, November 9, 1987.
“There's only room for one dominant female in the McMahon family... and that's me!”
“Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.”
“Good ball players make good citizens.”
“Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.”
“If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch.”
“We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'”

Source : "Q&A: Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell on Committing 'Hit and Run'". Interview with Eric Snider, www.mtv.com. August 21, 2012.

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