Systems Like Quotes
- The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs… — Steven Pinker
- Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems… — Robert Frenay
- Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
- Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies… — John D. Rockefeller
- Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in… — Ray Kurzweil
- But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth… — Samuel R. Delany
- The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems… — Sander Levin
- Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital. — Thomas Friedman
- This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society:… — Kevin Kelly