“Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level”
Douglas Hofstadter book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Source: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979), Chapter 20: "Strange Loops Or Tangled Heirarchies"
“The fact that goals may be dependent for their force on other more distant ends leads to the arrangement of these goals in a hierarchy - each level to be considered as an end relative to the levels below it and as a mean to the levels above it.”
Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 62.
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“Trust your hunches… Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) Joyce Brothers
As quoted in Words of Wisdom : More Good Advice (1990) edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 199
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Trust your hunches. Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. But be warned, don't confuse hunches with wishful thinking.
Context: Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 25: Statement of the Peter Principle
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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“Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness…”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Source: On the Road