Quotes about Standardization

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.

Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!

An index is a great leveller.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.

On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister?

Southwest—unlike most other airlines, which fly multiple aircraft models—flies only Boeing 737s. As a result, every Southwest pilot, flight attendant, and ground-crew member can work any flight. Plus, all of Southwest's parts fit all of its planes. All that means lower costs and a business that's easier to run. They made it easy on themselves.

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.