UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.
Dennis Ritchie

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
Dennis Ritchie

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
Dennis Ritchie

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
Anita Desai

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Samuel Alexander

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
Francesca Annis

The whole system of society tells you what to do.
Barry White

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
Bill Joy

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
Kevin Kelly

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.
Ivan Pavlov

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
Ivan Pavlov

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter

I have set out to change the language of the international system.
Clare Short

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.
Meg White

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
Joschka Fischer