Process Engineering Renewal 2

Preface

Like most of those who study history, he [Napoleon III] learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. (Taylor 1963)

Intuition for the writer is what experiment is for the learned, with the difference that in the case of the learned the work of the intelligence precedes and in the case of the writer it follows. That which we have not been forced to decipher, to clarify by our own personal effort, that which was made clear before, is not ours. Only that issues from ourselves which we ourselves extract from the darkness within ourselves and which is unknown to others. (Proust 2016)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. (Einstein, quoted in Verdo 2018)

To have to play for ten years to become a passable musician, what a miserable thing for man. (De Musset 2003)

Among all the techniques, there is a technique of discipline, and it cannot be satisfied with the old obedience obtained, worth as much as it is by empirical processes, and which should have been said to be less discipline than moderate indiscipline. The technique will at some point claim to train collaborators committed to its principle, that is, they will accept without unnecessary discussion its conception of order, of life, of its reasons for living. In a world dedicated to efficiency, to performance, does it not matter that every citizen, from birth, is dedicated to the same gods? The technique cannot be discussed, as the solutions ...