Klein is groots (VIII)

While many theoreticians – who may not be too closely in touch with real life – are still engaging in the idolatry of large size, with practical people in the actual world there is a tremendous longing and striving to profit, if at all possible, from the convenience, humanity, and manageability of smallness.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, Economics as if People Mattered (1973)