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“Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that centralization is appropriate for organizations with routine tasks, and decentralization for those with nonroutine tasks.”
― Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

“You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
― Tom Waits

“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”
― E.B. White