Quotes of: Hierarchical Keyword

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Ted Nelson

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

Octavia E. Butler

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

Robert Shea

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

James Salter

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

Helen Fisher

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

Eddie Redmayne

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

Ignatius of Loyola

Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor.

Auliq Ice

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity and thereby giving rise neogenetically to emergent properties.

Clifford Grobstein

Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.

Alan Huffman

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

Maynard Webb

The Metaphoton is a web of energy fields or complexes - having three hierarchical complexes called the light complex, mind complex and spirit complex.

God Does Not Roll Dice

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

Post-Scarcity Anarchism

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it ...

Mitch Kapor

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Octavia E. Butler

When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.

Helen Mirren

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a...

Jane Leavy

We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...." These words, wrung from the very depths of his soul, surprised even Seigen himself. He had no...

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