Jaques, 1956
The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981)
Source: The Administrative State, 1948, p. 202
“Stirner … holds to a joy-principle rather than to a pleasure-principle.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 143
“Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value.”
It learned from observation, as we are all advised to do (hey, after all, this is what is believed to be the scientific method). Its confidence increased as the number of friendly feedings grew, and it felt increasingly safe even though the slaughter was more and more imminent. Consider that the feeling of safety reached its maximum when the risk was at the highest!
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), pp. 40–41 (Taleb attributes the parable of the turkey to Bertrand Russell, who originally wrote of a chicken.)
Source: Industrial Organization: Theory and practice, 1965, p. 24
as quoted in The Sound of Poetry / The poetry of Sound, ed. Marjorie Perloff & Craig Dworkin; University of Chicago Press, 2009, p. 310, note 22
a critic on the sound-poetry of Dadaist Hugo Ball
Source: 1970s, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970, p. 2
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.”
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Context: Values are social norms — they're personal, emotional, subjective, and arguable. All of us have values. Even criminals have values. The question you must ask yourself is, Are your values based upon principles? In the last analysis, principles are natural laws — they're impersonal, factual, objective and self-evident. Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
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