“ Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ”
- Allan Bloom- Copy
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“ Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. ”
- Marcel Masse- Copy
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“ It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth. ”
- Pete Wilson- Copy
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“ In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them… ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
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“ In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat… ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men… ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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