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“He tried to measure his day
by tallying the hours on his wrist.
I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.
He placed the hours on a scale
with hours from former days to compare.
I took a hammer and broke it all.
He bent down and picked up the
shards of minutes first
then swept the seconds.
I told him he’d missed a spot;
there were some sparkling specks left.
'What are they?' he asked.
'Those are moments,' I said.
'What are they made of?' he asked.
They are times, I thought, when you win a race
or win a heart.
They are times when you give birth
or lay something, someone to rest.
When you wake up in the morning
with a smile because anything is possible.
When someone compliments the thing
you hate most about yourself.
Times when you are embarrassed.
Times when you are hurtful.
Times when you relish in a hearty meal.
Times when you service others and
are content with a well-spent day.
'What are they made of?' he asked again.
'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'
I picked up one of the specks with the tip
of my finger.
'Do you remember this?' I asked.
'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen
that morning.'
'Why?' I asked.
'Because of the knowledge
that I was loved.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.”
― Mark Zuckerberg

“We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly intelligent, likely more intelligent—​I’m guessing, for I have not seen the SAT scores—​than octopuses. Why, for that matter, is intelligence the scale by which we decide whom to spare? Or size? Have the simple and the small less right to live?”
― Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

“When we join together, we can increase our bargaining power.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“There are secrets hidden in our flesh. Our cells being born and dying with the same force that makes galaxies form and deconstruct.”
― Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“A business is a business, regardless of it's size and scale.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Nothing is so small
that you cannot
cut it in half”
― Ulf Wolf

“Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised; and the rememberer and the remembered; and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree; no not anyone with himself; and the whole earth too is a point.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Applying renewable energy sources in full at scale will make possible a multitude of new business opportunities.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918��1956

“My favorite color: "A pale blue dot suspended in a sunbeam...”
― Carl Sagan

“Hungry, we are hungry for the whole world.
We are like the small fish in the sea,
the ones who swim into the mouths of larger ones
to take what's there.”
― Linda Hogan, The Book of Medicines

“a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].”
― Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

“He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d’Angelo, captain and owner of the ‘tramp�� freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar logic: First this, then that; put this in here, and then out comes that. But the relationship between cows and chickens on this [Polyface] farm...takes the form of a loop rather than a line, and that makes it hard to know where to start, or how to distinguish between causes and effects, subjects and objects. . .
Joel would say this is precisely the point, and precisely the distinction between a biological and an industrial system. "In an ecological system like this everything's connected to everything else, so you can't change one thing without changing ten other things. . .This farm is more like an organism than a machine, and like any organism it has proper scale.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling. -Christopher Alexander”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“Where does scale come from? Scale is nature repeating the same step over and over. Complexity increases over time. The more complexity, the more information. The idea of virtual dimensions is that action, in relation to it's source, chooses a direction and depending on the action, creates the path it travels through, there is no empty stage that was there before the action. When a photon takes off in some particular direction a two dimensional virtual sheet is created for the wave to travel through. An interruption can create a one dimensional time-like line perpendicular to the sheet (the collapse of the wave function) to occur. The motion is transferred from these various virtual dimensions in discrete or quantum-like ratios. All of the relationships are discrete but not necessarily the scale. The curvature of space and time are variations of scale.”
― Rick Delmonico, The Philosophy of Fractals

“How could the dimensionality of time change with scale? There is only one way, as a fractal.”
― R.A. Delmonico

“The government is failing on a massive scale regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Biologically harmful electromagnetic radiation is part of a larger story about how human health is failing on a global scale.”
― Steven Magee

“The USA is dangerous on a global scale.”
― Steven Magee

“Life is like a two sided scale how much you attempt for it that much you will get.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“When you cement systems of operation, you can’t get out…even when you get to the top. It’s a myth to think you can escape the grind before learning to live in the present.”
― Richie Norton

“Exits are great but it’s better to do it as a choice, not a consequence of bad moda operandi.”
― Richie Norton

“A higher‐probability path to growth at scale is to leverage your proven strengths to adapt your original offering for adjacent markets. Don't venture too far afield if you don't need to, though. You can expand your capacity to sell while at the same time increasing your addressable market—without trying to strike gold a second time. That's how we continued to grow ServiceNow, which was already a super grower when I joined but still had plenty of room to expand its core offering.”
― Frank Slootman, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

“English: "Each refusal or acceptance has its extent."

Česky: „Každé odmítnutí nebo souhlas má svou míru.”
― Sebastián Wortys, Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie

“The act of delegation is a slippery slope for managers. Yes, you want to figure out how not to be a bottleneck in your organization and, yes, you want to figure out how to scale, but you also want to continue to get your hands dirty.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“Elle ne savait rien des soucis grands et temporels, elle vivait pour ses soucis petits et éternels.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke