One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

The new organization is edgeless, permeable, amorphous... constantly re-forming according to need.

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.

Organization is the enemy of improvisation.

To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.

The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.