Systems Quotes

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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing… — Barry Commoner
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. — Bruce Schneier
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems. — Bruce Schneier
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make… — Honore de Balzac
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God… — Ravi Zacharias
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to… — Nicholas A. Christakis
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun:… — Frederic Bastiat
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems… — T. Harv Eker
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own,… — Jacques Monod
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial… — John Playfair
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its… — Seth Shostak
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no… — Benjamin Franklin
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can… — Kurt GÃ¶del
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley

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