Alive Quote by Erik Naggum

“One essential characteristic of modern life is that we all depend on systems—on assemblages of people or technologies or both—and among our most profound…

— Atul Gawande

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100%…

— Allan Savory

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that…

— David Hanson

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most…

— Fred Brooks

We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.

— Peter Sunde

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and…

— Geoffrey West

“Some creators shy away from systems because they seem overpowering and rigid. However, in reality, strong systems are the only way in which you…

— Laura Busche

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

— Marshall McLuhan

How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school…

— Dana Brunetti

This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.

— Frances Arnold