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“Privacy was a modern fixation, I said, and distinctly American. For most of human history we accepted that our lives were being watched, listened to, supervened upon by gods and spirits—not all of them benign, either.”
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
“Organizations are no longer built on force but on trust. The existence of trust between people does not necessarily mean that they like one another. It means that they understand one another. Taking responsibility for relationships is therefore an absolute necessity. It is a duty. Whether one is a member of the organization, a consultant to it, a supplier, or a distributor, one owes that responsibility to all one’s coworkers: those whose work one depends on as well as those who depend on one’s own work.”
― Managing Oneself
― Managing Oneself
“Values, in other words, are and should be the ultimate test.”
― Managing Oneself
― Managing Oneself
“Sooner or later, of course, reality reveals itself, he says, you can borrow for a time against reality but reality is always waiting, patiently, silently, to exact a price and level the scales——”
― Prophet Song
― Prophet Song
“To discover truth, it is necessary to work within the metaphors of our own time,”
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
― God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
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