Systems Quotes · Page 3

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

— Glen Duncan

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

— Hannes Alfven

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

— Troy Aikman

“You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

— Rick Atkinson

“The system has already anticipated the freedom seeking mechanism in humans.”

— Bryant McGill

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

— Ron Jaworski

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

— Jonas Gahr Store

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be…

— Anita Borg

Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New…

— J. G. Ballard

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open…

— Mitchell Baker

Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground…

— Sundar Pichai

“Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.”

— Lewis Fry Richardson

Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the…

— Seth Shostak

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in…

— David Harsanyi

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia…

— Henry Petroski

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for…

— Michael Bennett

I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually…

— Alice Dreger

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among…

— Max Heindel

No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin…

— Stewart Udall

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us -…

— Michael Bennett

It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise…

— Rebecca Solnit

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

— Billy Donovan

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

— Chuck Yeager

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I want to work with the Philippine people and make life better there; there are systems I can work with.

— Suze Orman

Countless banks around the world are already testing distributed ledger systems in proof-of-concept trials.

— Chris Larsen

“System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.

— Charles Duhigg

“We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.”

— Don DeLillo

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

— Tim Berners-Lee

I don't really like all these tactical systems people talk about: 3-5-2, 4-3-3, and all that.

— Massimiliano Allegri

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only…

— Ban Ki-moon

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.

— Jeff Van Gundy

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do,…

— David Allen

When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of…

— Matt Mullenweg

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or…

— Jonathan Zittrain

A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will…

— Louise L. Hay