"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."

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Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 186), 1968.

Anthony Stafford Beer

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“In Christ there is no East nor West.”
“The path of least resistance will never make you proud.”
“Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.”
“What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.”
“An act of thinking without restriction- without boundaries or rules can lead to the point of no return.”
“Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
“Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.”
“The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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