We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.
The aim. . . is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model. . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.