Monitoring Quotes

“Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.”
― Robert E. Davis, IT Auditing: IT Governance

“Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.”
― Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist

“Monitoring and reviewing are the two paddles of the decision making cycle.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making

“If you want to save money while traveling, always delete your browser cookies or use incognito mode before you book airline tickets online. The reason is, ticket prices go up when you visit travel websites multiple times because of collected browsing history data.”
― Olawale Daniel

“LIVE like someone, somewhere is always monitoring your existence, 'because they are - some wise who are living know all too well that freedom and rest are truly deeded in the mental realm of those blessed to take up residence there - for there is no monitoring system needed from the grave...”
― Tracey Bond, Spirit Fed Entrepreneur: Growing Your Business with a Fearless Mindset

“At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.”
― Steven Magee

“At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of summit workers.”
― Steven Magee

“LASER spotters were employed to visually monitor air traffic in the vicinity of the high powered LASER beam. The were typically young students and aged people that would take these temporary very high altitude jobs for some extra money. Some would become irritable as the night progressed. As far as I know, there has never been any long term monitoring of these people for health issues stemming from nighttime industrial LASER exposure or oxygen starvation.”
― Steven Magee

“Different looks like accepting a relationship in its current state, then expecting it will remain forever; instead of monitoring to address topics that are hidden or in plain sight.”
― Dexter A. Daniels, Consistent, Not Different: Why We Stray from the Path and Reasons to Return

“There was no monitoring of astronomy staff for central sleep apnea, even when we would sleep at high altitude.”
― Steven Magee

“Monitoring and evaluation are a sine qua non of any organized structure. Laconic monitoring and prudent evaluation are the key to success of any project or assignment.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin -Author - Project Monitoring & Evaluation - A Primer

“Skenazy sees [cognitive distortion] discounting positives when parents overmonitor. "Any upside to free, unsupervised time (joy, independence, problem-solving, resilience) is seen as trivial, compared to the infinite harm the child could suffer without you there"...”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“Is anyone monitoring the long term health outcomes of all passengers from the Boeing 737 Max 9 explosive decompression?”
― Steven Magee

“Since I have been researching environmental radiation, the May 10th to 11th 2024 aurora is the most significant event that has occurred. The auroras were observed all over the world. There are no doubts they interact with human health in many ways and now the job of monitoring for long term health outcomes in the global population starts.”
― Steven Magee

“A business venture is like the tender tendril of a plant. You need to be there always to guide and direct.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“When governments control everything, your perceived or glorified wealth is just an illusion. Attaining true generational wealth requires working rules of law, disaster-proof property rights, and assets that the constituted authority can't just take away. Until you have these, you are still at the mercy of the system - and, it was created to put you in check whenever you want to have a contrary opinion.”
― Olawale Daniel, Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits