Systems Quotes
1140 quotes by 850 authors
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in…
— Walter Darby Bannard
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad.…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.
— Frederick Lenz
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The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the…
— Frederick Lenz
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We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give…
— Frederick Lenz
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There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: passive systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and active systems collect the sunlight that hits your…
— Dave Barry
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
— George Packer
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In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all…
— John Hagel
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The incredible expansion of mobile technologies is another important factor that will both drive and support the deployment of workplace learning tools and systems in…
— Charles Jennings
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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
— Cory Doctorow
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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar…
— Guido van Rossum
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It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.
— William Eckhardt
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Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.
— William Eckhardt
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Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz.…
— Nikola Tesla
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Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress,…
— Paul Stamets
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Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
— Noam Chomsky
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Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through…
— Adrian Bejan
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