Systems Quotes

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: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly

Future, Society, Science

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
Werner Herzog

Insecurity, Times, Film

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Hope, Different, Understand

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
Mark Hyman

End, Balance, Body

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.
Doc Hastings

Since, Security, Congress

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
Arthur Levitt

May, Makes, Break

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'
Guy Kawasaki

Life, System, Ready

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
John Stossel

Government, Kinds, Lawyers

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget

Reality, Means, Knowing

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.
Leland Stanford

Real, Two, Between

The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.
Mike White

Crazy, Emotional, Place

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.
Sol LeWitt

Simple, Used, Possible

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
Paul Wolfowitz

Why, Matter, Support

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
Edward Sapir

National, Interests, Critical

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
Barry Commoner

War, Technology, Changes

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
Dominic Cooper

Education, Family, Good

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
Gijs de Vries

Change, Technology, Inevitable

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
Huston Smith

Crisis, Political, Ways

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.
Debbie Stabenow

Today, Different, Looks

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.
Meir Kahane

Heart, Reason, Nation

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.
Steve Case

Work, Home, Nobody

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.
Jane D. Hull

School, Nation, Innovative

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
Murray Gell-Mann

Time, Science, Thought

The transmission systems are still regulated.
Kenneth Lay

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
Shannon Miller

Education, Amazing, School

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
Seth Lloyd

Thought, Wishes, View

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
James F. Cooper

General, Effects, Exceptions

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
Ken Thompson

Wanted, Memory, Virtual

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
Richard Powers

Big, Between, Books

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
Strom Thurmond

Mind, Doubt, Two

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