#arch

Unfortunately, in a hierarchical structure, power relationships tend to determine the content; there is always the danger that a "rank-based" logic will prevail. Managers, intent on advancement, tend to supply the information they know their superiors want to hear, rather than the information they ought to hear. Large organizations tend, therefore, to become systematically stupid. ↗

— John Médaille

#politics #relationship

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. ↗

— Voltairine de Cleyre

#atheism #religion #religion

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#science #search-for-meaning #science

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#science #science

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile. ↗

— Hans Selye

#science #science

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#archangel #becca-fitzpatrick #fallen-angel #hush-hush #patch

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#government #anarchism

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. ↗

— Grant Morrison

#dandyism #fashion #anarchism

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason. ↗