System Quotes

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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any… — Daniel Tammet
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. — Serj Tankian
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that… — Serj Tankian
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. — Serj Tankian
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. — Quentin Tarantino
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you… — James Taylor
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown… — Lee Tergesen
I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system. — Clarence Thomas
But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute,… — Clarence Thomas
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate. — Hunter S. Thompson
I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the… — Bill Toomey
When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system,… — Linus Torvalds
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. — Linus Torvalds
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get… — Linus Torvalds
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the… — Desmond Tutu
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God,… — Desmond Tutu
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. — Bill Vaughan

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