Systems Quotes

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Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing… — Paul Bremer
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast… — Steve Buyer
A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems. — Tim Bishop
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on… — Francis Crick
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide,… — Helen Clark
I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and havenâ€™t looked back.… — Dan Miller
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court… — Ray Comfort
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where… — David Deutsch
Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. — Dorothy E. Denning
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. — Tim Ferriss
Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then… — Cindy Gallop
â€¦ what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names â€” otherwise you would be selling… — Edsger Dijkstra
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to… — Wilfred Trotter
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower… — Jared Diamond
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny… — Rene Dubos
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as… — Anthony Giddens
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in… — Anthony Giddens
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. — John T. Flynn

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