Scales Quotes - Page 26

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

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Want, Humans, Loses

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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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• In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it

  Beth Comstock

  Helping, Projects, Bigs

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

  David Halberstam

  America, Excellence, Quality

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Powers That Be”, p.538, Open Road Media

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• Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

  Kathleen Raine

  Self, May, Mood

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

  Marci Shimoff

  Numbers, Effort, Weight

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• What does the world need that you can provide?”
Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable products, or corporate philanthropy
Start before scale: make a commitment, take small steps and then scale when you’re ready
Internalize and share your social mission
Be unfailingly transparent – “If you’re not scared by what you’re saying, you’re not sharing enough

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Commitment, Volunteer, Marketing

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• Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. If Ladakh now succeeds in creating for itself a future which retains the foundations of its traditional past, it will be an inspiring example of how all the various elements of an ecological future fit together.

  Helena

  Past, Creating, Together

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• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

  M. L. Stedman

  Ocean, Blue, Water

  "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.

  M. L. Stedman

  Ocean, Night, Islands

  "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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• Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need.

  Seth Godin

  People, Important, Use

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• Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

  Cary Fowler

  Loss, Agriculture, Diversity

  Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press

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