American Social Scientist Quotes

Sherry Turkle
Ithiel de Sola Pool
Nicholas Lore

The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.

Nicholas Lore
Nicholas Lore
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle
Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today's business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.

We exist in the geographical environment, moving about in space-time, as we carry on our continual intercourse with nature, through breathing, drinking, eating, absorbing light, heat and other forms of radiant energy, eliminating through breathing, urination and defecation, through the skin and by radiation of heat, as the geographical environment flows in and out of us, as it does in all other organisms.

Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.

He is a visionary leader who has built a tremendously successful business over the decades by hiring talented people, developing a shared plan, and then unleashing them to carry it out. That's what real leaders do, and I believe that he will do the same thing as president.

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

Ithiel de Sola Pool
Ithiel de Sola Pool
Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

Although advice on how and when to draw graphs is available, we have no theory of statistical graphics.