Systems Quotes

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The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are… — Mikko Hypponen
Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this… — Mikko Hypponen
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts… — Michael Specter
The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems. It also makes… — Michael Specter
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than… — Seth Shostak
Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those… — Seth Shostak
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine. — Marianne Williamson
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. — Noam Chomsky
Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems. — Noam Chomsky
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons… — Noam Chomsky
As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions… — Noam Chomsky
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral… — Paul Hawken
It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But… — Martin Rees
All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a… — Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent… — Ban Ki-moon
In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their… — Lou Jiwei
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon
Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a… — Stephen Kinzer
The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine. — Leroy Hood

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