Systems Quotes

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Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the… — Walter A. Shewhart
Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home — Steve Case
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the… — James Gleick
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew… — Ben Bova
There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and… — Peter Garrett
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle,… — Julian Sanchez
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and… — Chauncey Wright
The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything. — Marshall Fritz
We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the interplay of these… — Ann Scott
A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness… — Jerry Sabloff
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. — John Naughton
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand. — Beeban Kidron
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the… — Anna Garlin Spencer
Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It… — Richard Farson
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent… — Pope Francis
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow,… — J D Hayworth
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the… — Rudolf Arnheim
Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break;… — Arthur Levitt Jr
By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but… — Brad Pitt
We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being… — Jonathon Porritt

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