Systems Quotes

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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....… — Terence McKenna
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system… — Mao Zedong
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz von Foerster
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on… — Marshall McLuhan
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know… — Gerda Lerner
In Australiaâ€™s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem… — Tony Abbott
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful… — Ruben Hinojosa
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental.… — Stephen Harper
It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. — Stephen Harper
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into… — Mark Steyn
It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast — Jeri Ryan
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems â€” and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic… — Kofi Annan
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,… — Douglas Engelbart
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable… — Naomi Klein
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. — Donald Cram
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software… — Fred Brooks
Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot;… — Adolf Galland
The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table,… — Elliott White Springs

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