Systems Quotes

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It is the fate of operating systems to become free. — Neal Stephenson
When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I… — Patrick Ewing
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware. — Robert Greene
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same… — Ferdinand de Saussure
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes,… — Gerhard Richter
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture — Peter L. Berger
It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else.… — Brian D. McLaren
The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change,… — Leslie White
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing â€˜patterns of changeâ€™ rather than… — Peter Senge
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or… — John Rawls
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies… — Yvon Chouinard
Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. — Sam Farr
Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so… — Tom Peters
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. — David Parnas
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. — Unknown Author
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to… — Paul Hawken
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward
There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be… — William Temple
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only… — Robert Anton Wilson

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