All systems require myths for their longevity.

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth

“foreign legal systems. So I made”

— Lee Child

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully…

— Peter Senge

You see, in chess we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people…

— Anonymous

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems,…

— August Krogh

We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have…

— Jessa Gamble

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light…

— Wang Jianlin

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems…

— James Gleick

Clearly if the United States' relationship with Cuba changed, which would require a regime change inside Cuba, if Cuba moved towards a more democratic…

— Jeb Bush

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a…

— Matt Mullenweg

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

“I did customer service for a company. I hated it, as the customers knew they were building problematic systems!”

— Steven Magee

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we…

— Aaron Koblin

“All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan