Systematic Organization Quotes

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

I am a bit O.C.D. I have a colour-coordinated bookcase. The books are arranged by the colour of the spine. It looks cool, but people come in and think I am slightly mental.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

I can't stand a house to be dirty or even messy, even. I am a bit OCD. Wash the dishes when you finish eating.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

I'm a big believer in institutions.

If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, 'Oh, God, we'll never be able to tackle this!' But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity.