Concerning the Cumulative Nature of Wealth, Bucky Fuller stated that: "The intellectual productive ability of science and technology which displaces the individual as a productive slave is cumulative to the whole history of intellect." Buckminster Fuller, "Ideas and Integrities," Macmillan Publishing Co., 1963.
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Parkinson's law of triviality, first mentioned in C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 book Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration, states that: "The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." To illustrate this, he writes about a finance committee with a …
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Who can forget the advertising campaign surrounding the Students Come First Proposition Three Referendum leading up to last November's election? Proposition Three, the Referendum to Approve or Reject Legislation Amending School District Funding, Requiring Provision of Computing Devices and Online Courses for High School Graduation.
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We members of NFDB, (National Federation of Dependent Business, not to be confused with those independent types over at NFIB) you know who we are. The president identified us quite clearly the other day when he said, "If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made …
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Here at the Flat Earth Society, you know who we are. The president told you who we are back in May. Anyway, we read with interest Mike Satren's recent Special to the Press featuring Burt Rutan's views on global warming. You see, Burt Rutan is the guy who designed and …
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Here at the Flat Earth Society, you know who we are. The president told you who we are back in May. Anyway, we read with interest Mike Satren’s recent Special to the Press featuring Burt Rutan’s views on global warming. You see, Burt Rutan is the guy who designed and …
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