Quotes by Top Down Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis top-down simplicity doe The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn top-down country thinking I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed. Amanda Palmer pyramid-schemes top-down thinking If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need. Andrew Lansley gps top-down serious Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people. Barack Obama top-down play fall We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class. Barack Obama top-down class needs So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it. Barack Obama top-down economics needs I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down. Barack Obama top-down bottom grassroots I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work. Barack Obama top-down kind want Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. Benjamin Netanyahu top-down israel pyramids Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy. Charles Horton Cooley top-down kindness animal "Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all these systems of meaning and control each time (i.e. racism, ableism, xenophobia, etc.). I needed a term like that, but "oppression" implies a kind of top-down understanding of power that is at odds with the Foucaultian model I rely on in my work. Dean Spade top-down xenophobia writing Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations. Eduardo Galeano top-down charity challenges I don't think top-down works in America. Donald Trump top-down america thinking I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. Frank Lloyd Wright top-down intelligent hate The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media. Fred Ritchin top-down media profound [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. Gail Collins top-down rose attitude Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. Gary Hamel top-down political struggle This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics. George F. R. Ellis top-down keys brain Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization. George Gilder top-down government order 1234»