Systems Quotes

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All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I… — Jacob Bronowski
All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain. — Temple Grandin
Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's… — Ward Cunningham
Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools. — Gene Brown
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have… — Henry Knox
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing. — Norman Ralph Augustine
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these… — K. Eric Drexler
Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals. — John Stuart Mill
Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems… — Kim Campbell
None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. — Trip Hawkins
Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields, with the forest… — Unknown Author
The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our… — Christopher Wray
Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between… — Daniel Katz
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or… — Dorothy E. Denning
I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access. — Dorothy E. Denning
These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for… — Tony Evans
The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation. — Richard Wexler
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. — Carter Burwell
Systems are made by players rather than players making systems — Theo Foley
The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide… — Kofi Annan

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