Self Organizing Quotes

#1. I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.

James Howard Kunstler

#2. The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

Ron Eglash

#3. Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.

Steven Pressfield

#4. Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Sugata Mitra

#5. The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

Marianne Williamson

#6. APM focuses on team management, from building self-organizing teams to developing a servant leadership style. It is both more difficult, and ultimately more rewarding than managing tasks.

Jim Highsmith

#7. I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

Edgar Mitchell

#8. Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

Carlo Ratti

#9. Leaders who want to create adaptive, self-organizing teams steer rather than control - they influence, nudge, facilitate, teach, recommend, assist, urge, counsel, and, yes, direct in some instances.

Jim Highsmith

#10. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe
to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it
is a wonder beyond words.

Joanna Macy

#11. The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.

John Mackey

#12. The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).

Fritjof Capra

#13. The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

Marianne Williamson

#14. If a self-organizing system becomes too static, it runs down; if it becomes too chaotic, it breaks apart.

Danah Zohar

#15. If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Jason Silva

#16. One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

Jonas Salk

#18. Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.

Biz Stone

#19. The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

Edgar Mitchell

#20. We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

John Seely Brown

#21. Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

Nicholas Negroponte

#22. I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

Laura Ziskin

#23. Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

Peter Steinhart

#24. If princes are indeed superior to the people in enacting laws, in organizing civil governments, in setting up new statues and ordinances, then doubtless the people are so superior in maintaining what has been instituted that they increase the glory of those who instituted them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#25. Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them.

C.J. Milbrandt

#26. Exceptionalism" - the view that the United States has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther, and lives on a higher moral plane than other nations - was to them not a platitude, but the organizing principle of daily life and global politics.

Stephen Kinzer

#27. Organizing among agency workers is structurally impossible, and the enforced atomization of the agency worker is rephrased as 'individual choice', 'your freedom'.

Nina Power

#28. We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

Leonard Ravenhill

#29. Life is not about organizing the arrangement, but rather about arranging our needs.

Nishikant

#30. Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

Martin Frost

#31. Always put off writing by reorganizing my entire house and spending way too much time and money buying office supplies and organizing systems. Every single time.

Brene Brown

#32. Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. I considered organizing a game of wits - " "Admitting defeat already, are you? Since you're unarmed?

Vivian Arend

#35. Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically.

Diane Ackerman

#36. Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them.

Jan Karon

#37. Tell me - everything." So he did. About the hellfire, and the Wyrdhounds, and Lorcan. And then the past three days, of organizing and healing and Lysandra scaring the living shit out of everyone by shifting into a ghost leopard anytime one of Dorian's courtiers stepped out of line. When

Sarah J. Maas

#38. The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engaging stories goes first, the longer of the two goes at the end, and everything else goes in the middle.

Roy Kesey

#39. Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Frederic Bastiat

#40. Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it's not something that all readers have to care about.

Kurt Busiek

#41. Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#42. There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

Cesar Chavez

#43. Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon the strength of spiritual communities and a large base of their organizing has been through them.

Tim DeChristopher

#44. I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

Kevin Plank

#45. Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face in your academic career.

Stefanie Weisman

#46. Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.

Eric Schneiderman

#47. home, not to mention organizing his work life

Lucy Score

#48. As I've said, ARPA had been created in response to Sputnik, and one of its key organizing principles was that collaboration could lead to excellence.

Ed Catmull

#49. Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

Starhawk

#50. The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

James Gleick

#51. Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

Paul Wellstone

#52. It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

#53. Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility ... Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

Susan Sontag

#54. The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.

Geralin Thomas

#55. Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

Brene Brown

#56. Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Janet Flanner

#57. Each way of organizing has strengths and weaknesses. Taxonomy affords a view from the top, facets help us muddle through the middle, and tags build bridges at the bottom.

Peter Morville

#58. We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.

Bruce Lipton

#59. the brain cannot do its most important job of organizing sensory messages.

Carol Stock Kranowitz

#60. Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo

#61. I think the time is right for organizing and to give Blacks more political - the progressive Blacks, you have to make a distinction - participation, more Blacks in more authoritative positions, in more electoral political positions. But we want the right ones.

Huey Newton

#62. He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity.

Charlie Jane Anders

#63. Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

Georges Perec

#64. Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke.

Lorrie Moore

#65. The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

Werner Heisenberg

#66. The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization.

Philip Streatfield

#67. While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#68. Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

Gloria Steinem

#69. The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Abbie Hoffman

#70. For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

Hanna Rosin

#71. Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Gordon W. Allport

#72. Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Bill Gates

#73. Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

Michael Winter

#74. Democracy ... .[is not] ... simply a form of government but an organizing principle that bundles individual freedoms, Christianity, and capitalism into a marketable product carrying with it the unexamined promise of wealth and prosperity.

Thomas King

#75. Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.

Elinor Ostrom

#76. Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something.
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet.

A.A. Milne

#77. But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

Warren Beatty

#78. The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

Julia Ormond

#79. On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

Adolf Hitler

#80. I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

Howard Zinn

#81. At its heart, clutter is a lack of peace.

Kathi Lipp

#82. Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Tom Peters

#83. Reading across disciplinary categories in this way provides one of the main organizing logics of this book because instinct's presence, absence, and characterization within different disciplines is in itself instructive about the changes to sexuality taking place around the turn of the century.

Kathleen Frederickson

#84. A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

Francesca Woodman

#85. The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Edsger Dijkstra

#86. After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Michael Mandelbaum

#87. Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

Trevor Nunn

#88. When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!

Vicki Norris