Systems Quotes

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It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is… — George Wells Beadle
Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps.… — Joseph Butler
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life.… — Fritjof Capra
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society.… — Ludwig von Mises
Asana and complementary services are bringing the evolved team brain to the entire world. In great companies like Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Foursquare, and LinkedIn, people… — Justin Rosenstein
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it… — Devdutt Pattanaik
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and… — Eugene Jarecki
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. — Fred Wilson
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel… — Bjarke Ingels
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each… — Edward Snowden
Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better… — Ben Goldacre
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in… — Frans de Waal
For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even… — George Smoot
Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the… — Jacqueline Novogratz
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems… — Jamais Cascio
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment. — Jamais Cascio
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible… — Ken Robinson
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it… — Sunni Brown
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential… — Nathan Wolfe
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning. — Andy Stanley

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