Built Quote by Paul Baran

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

— T. S. Eliot

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up…

— Frank Herbert

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

— Esther Dyson

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

— Waylon Jennings

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

— Jaron Lanier

Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it…

— Ludwig Boltzmann

Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We can destroy only as creators

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

— Ellen Ullman

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

— Zora Neale Hurston