Mitch Kapor

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put.

American Businessman

Bill Gurley

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

Frans de Waal

Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.

Dutch Scientist

Octavia E. Butler

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

American Writer

Friedrich August von Hayek

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Austrian Economist

Ingmar Bergman

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

Swedish Director

Eugene Kennedy

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

American Psychologist

Martin Fleischmann

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

English Scientist

Robert Shea

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

American Author

James Salter

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

American Novelist

Indicates a power relationship, with levels from low to high status within an organization.

Power Dynamics

The structure is often rigid, with strict rules on roles and responsibilities.

Rigid Structure

Reflects social distances between different layers of authority or status.

Social Distances

Used in computing to rank tasks or data based on their level of importance or sequence.

Prioritization

In databases, indicates a 'parent-child' relationship between records or data points.

Parent-Child Relation

Used in biology to classify organisms based on shared characteristics into a ranked system.

Classifying Life

In biology, relates to categorizing organisms from simpler to more complex forms.

Evolutionary Complexity

Biological hierarchies involve taxonomic ranks such as kingdom, phylum, class, order.

Taxonomic Ranks

 You would be very hierarchical. You would tell everyone below you what to do. But that's not what an ideal leader is like now. If you read management books now, a leader is somebody who can foster creativity, who can get his -- get the employees -- see, I still say "his" -- who can get the employees to talk to each other,

Hanna Rosin: New data on...

 And we need to release that leader inside and actually start making the positive impact this world is calling for right now. But we have such hierarchical leadership. I mean, I understand what you're saying -- it's nice to release the leader inside -- but in these corporations, the truth is, it's extremely hierarchical.

The crisis of leadership...

 to print and paper or to print and water to print in plastic or to print in metal so you have a very different networking structure very different hierarchical structure with the new technology coming in and then you add the third thing which is robots so the stuff that rod Brooks is doing is incredibly important

Rethinking manufacturing...

 when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small. Second, the governance is not right because most coastal communities around the world don't have the authority to monitor the resources to create the reserve and enforce it. It's a top down hierarchical structure

Enric Sala: Glimpses of...

 that these delicate but really important relationships can have. And I think the reason that it stuck with me as well is because it's not common. And one of the reasons it's not common is because our traditional approach of the hierarchical system of academic achievement

What a nun can teach a...

 Units, like moans, cries, and chirps are arranged in phrases. Repeated phrases are assembled into themes. Multiple themes repeated in a predictable pattern create a song. This hierarchical structure is a kind of grammar. Whale songs are extremely variable in duration,

Why do whales sing? -...

 was Aristotelian science, and that was hierarchical. The earth is in the center, then there are these crystal spheres, the sun, the moon, the planets and finally the celestial sphere, where the stars are. And everything in this universe has a place.

Lee Smolin: How science...

 this hierarchical geography was shattered to pieces. Our world no longer follows this dualistic pattern in the scholar's mind, if it ever did. Now we know that history does not necessarily move forward. Sometimes it draws circles,

The revolutionary power...

 cooperation coordination collaboration killer whales are highly social species who exhibit complex group interactions with in hierarchical dominant systems that is to say they work together to rear their young to protect their pod

Killer whale society PIPE...

 as well as helping students learn from it. If this work grew burdensome for teachers, hierarchical moderation could help, which is a system where members themselves can report negative

Hierarchical