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{{Quote|''No battle — Tarutino, Borodino, or Austerlitz — takes place as those who planned it anticipated. That is an essential condition.'' | {{Quote|''No battle — Tarutino, Borodino, or Austerlitz — takes place as those who planned it anticipated. That is an essential condition.'' | ||
:—Tolstoy, ''War and Peace''}} | :—Tolstoy, ''War and Peace''}} | ||
{{Quote|Business, and government, suffers from a kind of physics envy. | |||
:—Rory Sutherland}} | |||
{{quote|''In sum, the [[legibility]] of a society provides the capacity for large-scale social engineering, [[high-modernist]] ideology provides the desire, the authoritarian state provides the determination to act on that desire, and an incapacitated civil society provides the leveled social terrain on which to build.'' | {{quote|''In sum, the [[legibility]] of a society provides the capacity for large-scale social engineering, [[high-modernist]] ideology provides the desire, the authoritarian state provides the determination to act on that desire, and an incapacitated civil society provides the leveled social terrain on which to build.'' | ||
:—{{author|James C. Scott}}}} | :—{{author|James C. Scott}}}} | ||