{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon.","author":"Arthur C. Clarke","tags":["2001","jupiter","noise","radiation","sci-fi","science","science-fiction","sound","space"],"id":7483,"author_id":"Arthur+C.+Clarke"},{"text":"I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["2001","2015","arrived","blatant","corporate","country","experience","frauds","incompetence","knew","living","usa"],"id":37610,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far from my family in Washington, who had a very grueling day) until the day itself was nearly over. I am only slightly embarrassed to tell you that this was a feeling of exhilaration. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2001","new-york","september-11-attacks","terrorism","war","war-on-terror","washington-dc"],"id":72326,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.","author":"Stanley Kubrick","tags":["2001","destruction","science","stanley-kubrick","universe"],"id":129459,"author_id":"Stanley+Kubrick"},{"text":"Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.","author":"Tom DeMarco","tags":["2001","analogy","corporate-health","management"],"id":215370,"author_id":"Tom+DeMarco"},{"text":"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ['Letters,' December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the 'roots' of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2001","afghanistan","debate","genocide","leftism","morality","noam-chomsky","politics","september-11-attacks","terrorism","the-nation","war","war-in-afghanistan-2001-presen"],"id":229264,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.","author":"Tom DeMarco","tags":["2001","counterintuitive","slack","stress"],"id":254953,"author_id":"Tom+DeMarco"},{"text":"If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The answer is, during time that is not used up directing day-to-day business. The fact that managers have time on their hands (I.E., their operations tasks take up less than eight hours per day) gives them time for reinvention. The extra time is not waste, but slack. Without it they could function in only their operational roles. Reinvention would be impossible because the people who could make it happen are just too busy to take the time.Even companies that didn't fire their change centers have hurt themselves by encouraging their middle managers to stay extremely busy. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.","author":"Tom DeMarco","tags":["2001","management","management-theory","middle-management","slack"],"id":259303,"author_id":"Tom+DeMarco"},{"text":"Managers who inspire extraordinary loyalty from their people tend to be highly charismatic, humorous, good-looking, and tall. So, by all means, strive to be those things. If you don't feel able to improve any of those factors very much, you might consider holding on to your people by designing a little slack into their lives.","author":"Tom DeMarco","tags":["2001","management"],"id":314026,"author_id":"Tom+DeMarco"},{"text":"The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.","author":"Stanley Kubrick","tags":["2001","destruction","significance","stanley-kubrick","universe"],"id":333216,"author_id":"Stanley+Kubrick"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}