Reengineering the Corporation, 1993
Context: The genesis of reengineering lies in a phrase one of us coined in the late 1980s: “Automating a mess yields an automated mess.” Unless an organization reconceptualized its operations, overlaying new technology on these operations accomplished little.
“The automated presidential surrogate is the superlative nobody.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 157
“Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“Machines can automate a lot of things, but design is something humans do best.”
Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices
02 May 2022
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
“The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
James Martin (author) (1933–2013) British information technology consultant and writer
Source: Information Engineering (1989), p. viii
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
Coined term on social media on March 16, 2018.
Quotes as Marcil d'Hirson Garron
“If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.”
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (2005)
“You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America.”
Herman Cain (1945) American writer, businessman and activist
Fox News, 2011-05-20, quoted in
Context: Let me be clear. I am, you know, exploring this whole Presidential run. Let me just tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be as it relates to Israel, if I were President: You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America. It's that simple. I want to protect that relationship because they have been our only consistent ally in that part of the world.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
Source: 1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969), p. 102
