“Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn’t address the converse—things systems… — Michael T. Nygard Copy Share Image
It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S.… — Lou Jiwei Copy Share Image
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“Tags [distinctive agent features observable by other agents] almost always define the network by delimiting the critical interactions, the major connections. Tags… — John H. Holland Copy Share Image
“Systems give you freedom. Put one business system in place this week and watch what happens.” — Lisa Mininni Copy Share Image
Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“I do not respond well to fraudulent systems of employee protection.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking. — David Rose Copy Share Image
“It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.” — Roby James Copy Share Image
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them. — Georg Henrik von Wright Copy Share Image
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody,… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I feel the overwhelming ache from surviving day after day in this miserable system that looks like a miserable world. To live… — Belle Townsend Copy Share Image
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
It's rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
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