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Augustine of Hippo
Human Error
“To err is human; to persist in error is diabolical.”
- Source: St. Augustine of Hippo (c. 400 CE). In “Humanum fuit errare, diabolicum est per animositatem in errore manere.” See Armand Benjamin Caillau, ed., Sermones de scripturis, in Sancti Aurelii Augustini Opera (Paris: Parent-Desbarres, 1838), 4:412.
- Keywords: Error_quotes Human_quotes Persist_quotes Diabolic_quotes
Andrew_Hui
Aphorism Genre
“The shortest of genres — the aphorism... A basic unit of intelligible thought, this microform has persisted across world cultures and histories, from Confucius to Twitter... Opposed to the babble of the foolish, the redundancy of bureaucrats, the silence of mystics, in the aphorism nothing is superfluous, every word bears weight.”
- Source: From the book “A Theory of the Aphorism from Confucius to Twitter” by Andrew Hui. Published in 2019 by Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691188959. Introduction, page 1.
- Keywords: Short_quotes Genre_quotes Aphorism_quotes Basic_quotes Unit_quotes Intelligible_quotes Thought_quotes Microform_quotes Persist_quotes Across_quotes Culture_quotes History_quotes Confucius(topic)_quotes Twitter_quotes Oppose_quotes Babble_quotes Foolish_quotes Redundant_quotes Bureaucrat_quotes Silence_quotes Mystic_quotes Nothing_quotes Superfluous_quotes Word_quotes Bear_quotes Weight_quotes
E_O_Wilson
Selection Pressures of Hunter-Gatherer Existence
“The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution.”
- Source: Chapter 4. On Human Nature (1978). On Human Nature; written by Edward O. Wilson; first edition; published in 1978 by Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0674634411.
- Keywords: Selection_quotes Pressure_quotes Hunter_quotes Gatherer_quotes Existence_quotes Persist_quotes Over_quotes Percent_quotes Human_quotes Evolution_quotes
Shoshana_Zuboff
Time Study Expert
“The time-study expert became the new focus of workers' antagonisms. Informal production quotas persisted and, in many cases, took on an overtly anti-management spirit. The union contract became the most important means for institutionalizing workers' instincts for self-preservation, as rationalization routed out the ordinary graces with which the workday had been laced. Concern over wages and hours, work rules, and working conditions began to replace the craftworker's culturally embedded practices of effort regulation. Overall, the purification of effort meant a heightened standard of labor discipline, and as such it widened the gulf between those who gave of their bodies in the service of production and those who did not.”
- Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 46. ISBN:0465032125.
- Keywords: Time_quotes Worker_quotes Production_quotes Quota_quotes Management_quotes Union_quotes Contract_quotes Importance_quotes Instinct_quotes Self-Preservation_quotes Reason_quotes Rational_quotes Compensation_quotes Hours_quotes Environment_quotes Condition_quotes Craft_quotes Culture_quotes Regulation_quotes Purification_quotes Effort_quotes Labor_quotes Discipline_quotes Body_quotes Taylorism_quotes Study_quotes Expert_quotes Focus_quotes Antagonism_quotes Informal_quotes Persist_quotes Anti-management_quotes Spirit_quotes Institutionalize_quotes Grace_quotes Workday_quotes Lace_quotes Wage_quotes Rule_quotes Embed_quotes Practice_quotes Height_quotes Standard_quotes Wide_quotes Gulf_quotes Service_quotes
