System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early… — James Fallows
I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean.… — Fergie
I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. — Robert Breault
[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for… — Robert Klein
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. — Robert M. Pirsig
The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed… — Barack Obama
If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing… — Aviva Chomsky
One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes… — Layne Redmond
I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very… — Shilpa Shetty
Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are… — Mark Zandi
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. — Robert Musil
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in… — Marvin Minsky
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery
The economy is a thoughtless weather system. — Kurt Vonnegut
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values. — James Dobson
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the… — Thomas Szasz
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J. G. Ballard
Letters are largely written to get things out of your system. — John Dos Passos
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs. — Alfred North Whitehead
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from… — Alfred North Whitehead
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the… — Alfred North Whitehead

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