Fragmentation Quotes

Overall, the FBI needs a systemic and integrated approach to planning and implementing improved human resource programs... Among the most important issues identified in the report is a fragmentation of responsibility and accountability, with at least three senior officials sharing some human resources functions. Since no single official is responsible for the full range of human resources-related programs, coordinating change is much more difficult. As a result, even the best-intentioned planning, training, budgeting, and personnel efforts have sometimes been at cross-purposes. - Dick Thornburgh

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. - Arthur Erickson

Our plan revolves around creating a master brand that's highly targeted -- to eliminate brand fragmentation and establish affinity with the Intel brand. We use the end user campaign to create affinity with the brand, which convinces OEMs to go to market with our brand. - Eric Kim

Not only do we want to reduce the fragmentation of Linux, but we also want to reduce the fragmentation of the standardization groups around Linux. So we're all trying to talk and find a way that we can all cooperate together and work towards one platform and one solution -- that's an ongoing effort. - John Ostrem

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. - Margaret J. Wheatley

It's a comment on our society, on the fragmentation of American family life. We have to bear that this is happening in America, where there is freedom of choice. These women are not converting in order to go and live in Saudi Arabia. We also don't know how permanent these conversions are in a country where people convert two or three times in their lives. - Leila Ahmed

If we wish to preserve the diversity of natural ecosystem processes, we must preserve the larger ecosystems where the longest food chains are found... As ecosystem size decreases (e.g., through the fragmentation of forest patches), we may see the loss of large, often rare, top predators. Those top predators that can survive in smaller ecosystems will likely feed lower in the food chain, which may alter the feeding relations and community structure through out the food web. - David Post

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country. - Adnan Pachachi