Systems Quotes
1140 quotes by 850 authors
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Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
— Rick Atkinson
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I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am…
— John Sculley
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Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
— John Sculley
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New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological…
— Ray Kurzweil
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A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to…
— Louise L. Hay
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20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or…
— Steven Pinker
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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there…
— Unknown Author
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America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the…
— Ferdinand Marcos
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I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of…
— Stewart Udall
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When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is…
— Brian Eno
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There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it is…
— Alex Steffen
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By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings…
— Alex Steffen
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I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of…
— Alice Dreger
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I want to work with the Philippine people and make life better there; there are systems I can work with.
— Suze Orman
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The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.
— Marcus Samuelsson
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The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.
— Frank Abagnale
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Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of…
— Sadie Jones
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It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has…
— Dan Kaminsky
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