Stafford Beer Quotes

#1. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

Stafford Beer

#2. Loved this side of him. The happy go lucky, making jokes, sort of guy. It made me even hotter to know behind that mask there was an animal waiting to devour me.

Alaska Angelini

#3. Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

Maureen Johnson

#4. Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

Angelina Jolie

#5. Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept

Anthony Stafford Beer

#6. Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

Stafford Beer

#7. A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#8. Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#9. Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#10. If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control

Anthony Stafford Beer

#11. I've been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers.

Keith Richards

#12. Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

Joyce Rachelle

#13. Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

Stanley Kubrick

#15. The Word of God is my source of hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#17. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Stafford Beer

#18. Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Horace Bushnell

#19. A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#20. Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#21. Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#22. The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#23. It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#24. It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#25. The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a false identification. Awareness is your nature. The body is your abode. The mind is your computer. Awareness;s you, is your very being.

Rajneesh

#26. The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#27. Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward, edited by Isaac Metzker.)

Nancy Pearl

#28. There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#29. Character is very much a matter of health.

Christian Nestell Bovee