Quotes About Control

the right word," Simpson said later. "He seemed completely intimidated by authority.

And so you might have good reason to pray for a tornado, whether it comes in the shape of swirling winds, or a politician. You imagine the thing doing the damage that you would like to see done, and no more. It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.

I think, a profound ability to control the two emotions that commonly destroy traders (fear and greed) and it made him as noble as a man who pursues his self-interest so fiercely can be.

That's what you do in TB control," Charity said. "The nurses take them to a hotel room and the sheriff watches them. If you think you have a shot at containing it, that's what you do. You have to do it by health officer authority. People say you can't do it, but we do it every day for TB.

He thought of the computer as a less than straightforward tool for controlling and manipulating the world around it, like a shovel with a loose blade.

is creating problems for bureaucrats who suffer from malignant obedience.

The programmers decided the steps everyone on board Hyperion would need to take to do everything from dimming the lights to raising the sails.

We know what the virus will do," she liked to say. "We don't know what the humans will do.

It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control," said President Trump. "It's going to be just fine.

would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life.

For people to accept the yoke, they must believe they have no choice.

We are the only reason your shitty state is standing.

the utilitarians. They were interested only in the computer's crude and brutish ability to impose its will on the world around it.

People no longer are responsible for what happens in the market, because computers make all the decisions. And in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

They really should just change the name," she said. "It shouldn't be the Centers for Disease Control. It should be the Centers for Disease Observation and Reporting. That's what they do well.

Hitler's doctors told U.S. intelligence officers that their patient had devoted surprising energy to examining his own feces; and there was pretty strong evidence that one of his favorite things to do with women was to have them poop on him.

The company tied white and yellow and red ribbons to the prostitutes to indicate which ones were available to which men. After each sexual encounter the prostitute received a stamp on her arm to indicate how often she had been used. The Germans didn't just want hookers: they wanted hookers with rules. Perhaps

When the systems depend on human vigilance, they will fail.

It was troubling to consider, he began, "an organism equipped with an affective and hormonal system not much different from that of the jungle rat being given the ability to destroy every living thing by pushing a few buttons." Given

There was something deeply dysfunctional about how the government worked that I never fully grasped," Joe would later say. "There's no one driving the bus.

There is an ancient rule of financial life—if you owe the bank 5 million bucks, the bank owns you, but if you owe the bank 5 billion bucks, you own the bank—that

Our job is not to comprehend or control everything, but to learn which story we are in and which of the many things calling out in the world is calling to us. Our job is to be fully alive in the life we have, to pick up the invisible thread of our own story and follow where it leads. Our job is to find the thread of our own dream and live it all the way to the end.

Therefore the skillful commander takes up a position in which he cannot be defeated and misses no opportunity to master his enemy.

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren't the only two alternatives.