Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.
Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.
The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.
I mean no snub but presidents don't usually march.
Political authority is problematic in Africa because of the blurry dividing line between the public and the private realm. Formal rules matter less than a series of informal institutions that regulate politics.
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
Morality, when formal, devours.
I think with black tie, you can't really do too much. I think you have to pretty much stick to the rules on that.
Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.
It is not an accident that the American experiment with a paper dollar standard, a variable standard, has been going on at the same time that our culture has been questioning whether American civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian ethic or Secular Humanism. The former involves formal rules from God through the vehicle of the Bible. The latter involves variable rules adopted by man ...
Arguing that the gold standard is ordained by God:
There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
Protocol is everything.
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
There are the rules and then there are the ways.
It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.
