Reason furthers unity, but nature furthers diversity; both lay claim to man.
—Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
—José Saramago, All the Names
IT Bureaucracy: Not Fooling Anyone
Among the biggest, baddest, bullyingest bureaucrats in a large enterprise are the IT folks. Yes, us, the very IT folks who so hate bureaucracy when we find it imposed on us. Your password, we say, must be in a format that guarantees you’ll never remember it, and you must change it every few nanoseconds, and you need to remember your old password in order to change ...
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