System Quotes

5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…. I choose to call such… — Russell L. Ackoff
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we… — Douglas Hofstadter
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too… — Jodi Picoult
Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you… — Seth Lloyd
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart. — K. Pattabhi Jois
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question… — James Connolly
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against… — James Connolly
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t… — Peter Thiel
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security… — Mark Z. Jacobson
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist. — Sister Souljah
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors,… — Tony Hoare
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here,… — Dennis Ritchie
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole… — Dennis Ritchie
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. — Brian Kernighan
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system… — Bruce Dickinson
One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if… — Geraldo Rivera
The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates… — Jerry Springer
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon,… — Murray Gell-Mann
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in… — Murray Gell-Mann
I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic… — John Christy
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a… — Chen-Ning Yang
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure… — Richard V. Allen

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