99 Quotes About Hierarchy

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

Enhän minä mitään, kunhan kaivan tällä hopealusikalla tätä routaista maata, kohmeisin käsin, kun ei muutakaan tekoa minulla, voi sentään miten hankalaa tämäkin on...

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.