Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 10, Counting Digits, The ubiquitous logarithm, p. 85
“It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.”
Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 1, p. 13
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Source: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11 : Thirty Methods of Influence

The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: One of the most marked features about the law of mind is that it makes time to have a definite direction of flow from past to future.... This makes one of the great contrasts between the law of mind and the law of physical force, where there is no more distinction between the two opposite directions in time than between moving northward and moving southward.

Quote of Naum Gabo (1957), as cited in: Gabo: Construction, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. p. 164.
1936 - 1977

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Variant: Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Source: In Praise of Philosophy (1963), p. 45

Equality (1943)
Context: Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up – painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other — that is, in opposite directions. To transfer bodily all that belongs to one relationship into the other is blundering.

Source: 21st Century, Robert Rauschenberg, Works, Writings and Interviews, 2006, p. 37