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«The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
applied, automation, efficiency, efficient, inefficiency, inefficient, magnifies, magnify, magnifying, operation, rule of, technologies, technology, with efficiency
«The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
cos, operation, rivalries, rivalry, social control, specialization, The General, utilized, utilizing
«The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.»
«Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Punctuality
| Keywords:
bound up, co, elevated, insight, moralist, moralists, mystic, operation, social relations
«The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.»
«There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
calls, degraded, dignity, goddess, in operation, operation, opposite, scorned, scorning, The Witches, turning, Virgin, whore, witch, witching
«Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.»
«Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is I've never felt better in my life.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
AIDS, Cancer, colon, colon cancer, hearing aids, operation, prostate, skin cancer, The White House, White House
«Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
analytic, as it were, doctrines, effects, helped, historical, invalidate, invalidated, invalidating, on the contrary, operation, Precepts, proposal, proposals, put forward, relic, relics, religious doctrine, replacing, repression, residues, teachings, treatment
«So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
military, military operation, operation, persistence
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