Scales Quotes - Page 2

• Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Technology, Men

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• I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

  Craig Mundie

  Innovation, World, Concerned

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• Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Powerful, History

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• This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

  A. N. Wilson

  War, Mistake, Book

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• Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

  Clay Shirky

  Weekend, Years, Ideas

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• Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.

  Franz Bardon

  Found, Humans, Large Scale

  "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 31, 1956.

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• I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

  Bill McKibben

  Morning, Jobs, Optimistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

  Barry Boehm

  Maintenance, Use, Development

  "Software Architecture in Practice". Book by Len Bass, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman, 1997.

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• We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM’ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

  Ginni Rometty

  Ideas, Long Ago, Age

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.

  Stefan Halper

  Order, Civilization, Promise

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• Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

  Andrew Hogue

  Real, Return, Engagement

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• "Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

  Samuel Smiles

  Thinking, Achievement, Able

  Samuel Smiles (2017). “Self-Help: The Original Guide to Bootstrapping Your Success”, p.198, Courier Dover Publications

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Exercise, Law

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• I didn't want to lose the human scale.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Want, Humans, Loses

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• Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

  Jessica Helfand

  Eye, Light, Color

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• The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Eye, Artist, Soul

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Interesting, Decision

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• I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Fascinating, Psychoanalysis, Engaged

  "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2" by Andy Tanenbaum, www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.

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• Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.

  Mel Duncan

  War, Alternatives, May

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• I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.

  Paula Deen

  Running, Long, People

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• A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Events, Causes, Economy

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• The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

  Jean Dreze

  Government, India, Hunger

  "Dying of hunger in a land of surplus" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2002.

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• Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

  Seth Godin

  Joy, Consistency, Humanity

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