System Quotes

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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking… — Douglas Rushkoff
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system,… — Douglas Rushkoff
Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function… — Kevin R. Stone
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the… — Craig Clevenger
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and… — John B. S. Haldane
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying… — Robert Anton Wilson
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present… — Nawal El Saadawi
My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm… — Marya Hornbacher
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The… — Frantz Fanon
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it… — Jasper Fforde
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system. — Jawaharlal Nehru
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves… — James A. Baldwin
Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and… — Edward Abbey
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. — Edward Abbey
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it… — Joe Strummer
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula,… — Charles Bukowski
Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are… — Wangari Maathai
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and… — Pat Conroy
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served… — Sandra Day O'Connor
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. — Eric Clapton

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