Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in life.

Failure is almost always success wrapped in a blanket of redo possibilities... It is up to you to reframe the outcome ~bns

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

I don't really have a pattern yet. I don't know if I'll develop one. As far as comedic integrity, I don't have integrity in general, comedic or otherwise.