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“Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.”
― The Soul of a New Machine
― The Soul of a New Machine
“A great deal has been written on the question of how to motivate industrial workers. Presumably such literature arises because so many jobs have been made so trivial that few people can find any meaning at all in them.”
― The Soul of a New Machine
― The Soul of a New Machine
“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
― Kingdom Come
― Kingdom Come
“The modern distinction between science, politics (including technology) and art is both unfeasible and pernicious”
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“In further institutionalizing the great power of the majority, we are making the individual come to distrust himself. We are giving him a rationalization for the unconscious urging to find an authority that would resolve the burdens of free choice. We are tempting him to reinterpret the group pressures as a release, authority as freedom, and that this quest assumes a moral guise makes it only the more poignant.”
― The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation
― The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation
Lucas’s 2025 Year in Books
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