Standardization Quotes

“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. ”

“Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.”

“My evanescent anarchistic tendencies are purely classical. I use the word anarchist in the sense in which it was understood by the ancient Greeks. They, of course, accepted the anarchist as a fairly respectable--if somewhat vehement--opponent of government encroachment on the individual's rights to think and act freely. It is in this sense that I glimpse myself as an anarchist--regretting the growth of government and the ever-increasing trend toward regulation and, worst of all, standardization of human activity.”

“There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.”

“Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.”

“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”

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

“Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.”

“The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.”