System Quotes

5175 quotes by 3168 authors

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if… — Randy Pausch
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other… — Erwin McManus
It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work… — Harvey Milk
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the… — Muhammad Yunus
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were… — Octavio Paz
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. — Adrienne Rich
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished… — Albert Einstein
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented… — Douglas Adams
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing… — Daniel Handler
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless… — Hilaire Belloc
Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's… — Philip K. Dick
The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you. — Michael Crichton
Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing… — Margaret Mitchell
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. — Barbara Tuchman
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,… — Carl Sagan
Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you donâ€™t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no… — Aravind Adiga
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at allâ€”steps to the refrigerator,… — Mary Karr
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you… — William P. Young

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