Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
Almost everything is like a machine.
Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.
I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.
The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
I definitely am a ritualistic person.
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.
