Systems Quotes

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We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. — Diane Watson
The TMS is evolving into a logistics platform that can handle all nodes, all geographies and all transportation nodes. It's already talking to other applications… — John Murphy
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman
The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger… — Gary North
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… — Dan Simmons
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the… — Carl Sagan
Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction… — Michel Houellebecq
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... — Thomas Carlyle
I know firsthand how critical support systems are. — Amanda Lindhout
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can… — James Fallows
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization… — Nicholas Negroponte
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean,… — Paul Hawken
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and… — Gregory Bateson
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. — Bill Joy
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And… — David Chase
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public… — John McAfee

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