Quotes About Flexibility

doing the same thing twice will not predictably or necessarily lead to the same result. It is this characteristic that makes static checklists and best practices, while valuable, insufficient to prevent catastrophes from occurring. See

Organizations which design systems ...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of the organizations.. the larger an organization is, the less flexibility it has and the more pronounced the phenomenon

Murphy does exist, so you'll always have unplanned work, but it must be handled efficiently.

Make infrastructure easier to rebuild than to repair

no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

I work in situations where random events happen. I can't forbid them to happen. I can only make allowances for them and deal with them when they occur.

Family is what it can be, not what it should be.

Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

This was yet another one of those things that school failed to prepare you for: how to deal with the unpredictable behavior of real people in the real world.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Freedom of action based on commander's intent means that the expectation is success, not a particular way of achieving success.

Adapt or die," Helen said. "It's impossible to stop change," Maud said. "It's the nature of life. Those who refuse to adapt will eventually die out. But before they do, they will get nasty. They might even hate you.

At heart, Curran was a cat. He liked soft things, high places, and enough room to stretch out.