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finally started reading One From Many by Dee Hock (the founder of VISA), gifted to me by... [checks notes] anonymous. I don't know what I was expecting– a typical business-y book maybe? But Dee is a chaotic nerd and I'm loving all the quotes and references and ecological thinking https://t.co/1lgwL1tNjC
"Why, [Dee] wondered, couldn't a human organization work like a rain forest? Why couldn't it be patterned on biological concepts and methods?" "We all know that in healthy living systems control is distributed and change occurs continually."
"If children do not learn democracy in schools, where will they learn it?" – Debbie Meier https://t.co/cn4x6mOuln
"To develop new insights into fragmentation and wholeness requires a creative work even more difficult than that needed to make fundamental new discoveries in science, or great and original works of art." – David Bohm
"The striking of a match is every bit as wonderful as the working of a brain [...] Nature does not class her works in order of merit; everything is just as easy to her as everything else: she puts her whole mind into all that she does..." – Stephen Paget
"Taking a new step; uttering a new word is what people fear most." – Dostoyevsky "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." – Machiavelli
"The true strength of rulers and empires lies... in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open, truthful, and legal. As soon as government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than "the gang in possession" and its days are numbered." – H.G. Wells
“This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... being a force of nature instead of complaining... the only tragedy in life is being used by personally minded men for purposes that you recognize to be base.” - George B. Shaw https://t.co/qcJNkgarm4
