Systems Quotes
1140 quotes by 850 authors
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our…
— Murray Bookchin
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Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than…
— Gangaji
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The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works…
— Clive Bell
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It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems
— Shannon Miller
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Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks);…
— Julian Assange
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That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.
— Julian Assange
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As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that…
— Michael Behe
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I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
— Michael Behe
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All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what…
— Seth Lloyd
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If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems…
— Seth Lloyd
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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate…
— Niklaus Wirth
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
— Larry Wall
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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
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Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
— Charles Guggenheim
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And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from…
— William Winwood Reade
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Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have…
— Unknown Author
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In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.
— Austin Osman Spare
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The transmission systems are still regulated.
— Kenneth Lay
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No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one…
— Donella Meadows
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There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.
— Donella Meadows
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