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Quotes About System

Ein System war wirklich am Ende, wenn es nicht einmal seinen Kriminellen eine Zukunft bot.
~ Sibylle Berg
Underneath every simple, obvious story about 'human error,' there is a deeper, more complex story about the organization.
~ Sidney Dekker
Asking what is the cause, is just as bizarre as asking what is the cause of not having an accident. Accidents have their basis in the real complexity of the system, not their apparent simplicity.
~ Sidney Dekker
Tomorrow's accident, which will be rare but no doubt even more disastrous, will be an accident where the regulations were in place to prevent the problem, or perhaps where no-one actually made an identifiable error and no system truly broke down but all the components had been weakened by erosion: the degree of variation within the operating conditions will one day prove enough to exceed the tolerable linkage thresholds.
~ Sidney Dekker
But errors are consequences: the leakage that occurs around the edges when you put pressure on a system without taking other factors into account.
~ Sidney Dekker
Safety and risk are made and broken the whole time, throughout your organization. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.
~ Sidney Dekker
A whole complex system cannot be inspected, only parts or sub-systems can be inspected.
~ Sidney Dekker
When justice is not seen to be done by the public,' read Diane McGrath, opposing bail for Dwayne Samson, 'confidence in the bail system and more generally the entire justice system may falter.' Confidence in the justice system. Really? Among the Acadians and the Mi'kmaq and the Scots, the miners and the steelworkers and fishermen of Cape Breton Island? Really?
~ Silver Donald Cameron
Phillip was sort of a strange genius, because he figured out exactly where the holes were in the system, and he used them. He didn't 'fall between the cracks.' He lived in the cracks.
~ Silver Donald Cameron
The truth is that the law enforcement system offers no effective protection for someone like Susan Butlin -- or Carla Samson. None.
~ Silver Donald Cameron
The actors in the courtroom often assume, for instance, that the enforcement system is able to do things that it patently cannot do, like provide real protection to citizens in danger of being murdered.
~ Silver Donald Cameron
Efetivamente, num sistema em que a vida está subordinada à produção de lucro, a acumulação de força de trabalho só pode ser alcançada com o máximo de violência para que, nas palavras de Maria Mies, a própria violência se transforme na força mais produtiva.
~ Silvia Federici
A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as a house, and if our intellectual house is cramped and confined, we need to know what better structures are possible. The
~ Simon Blackburn
So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections. A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as a house, and if our intellectual house is cramped and confined, we need to know what better structures are possible
~ Simon Blackburn
And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.
~ Simon Mainwaring
It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.
~ Simon Rich
To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
His experience of the world and his empathy for other people produced a body of work that adamantly refused ready categories, received ideas, and preordained notions of all kinds in favor of the difficult, strange, tender, and always multifarious arena of human relations and emotions. I think James felt that every attempt to reduce life to a system of beliefs - religious, political, or philosophical - must inevitably become a form of lying.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.
~ Julianne Malveaux
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.
~ Marianne Williamson
By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love order and organization.
~ Kate Spade
I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.
~ Susan Sarandon