Quotes About System

Calculus, like other forms of mathematics, is much more than a language; it's also an incredibly powerful system of reasoning.

her iPhone in the bowl so the sound would be amplified—pretty much the cheapest speaker system

That mix of order and anarchy is what we now call emergent behavior.

There is nothing more frustrating to a hacker than to see an extension to a system and not be able to keep hands-on.

Hacker Ethic: like lines of code in a systems program, compromise should be bummed to the minimum.

engineering comes down to two real principles: The first is that you think of every problem as a system. And every system can be better. No matter how good or bad it is, you can make anything better—

The system enforced Google's insistence that advertising shouldn't be a transaction between publisher and advertiser but a three-way relationship that also included the user.

This web of life, the most complex system we know of in the universe, breaks no law of physics, yet is partially lawless, ceaselessly creative.

A central failure of the "mind as a computational system" theory is that computations, per se, are devoid of meaning.

I don't think we're basically a revolutionary country. We have too large a middle class. The middle class tends to be apathetic. An apathetic middle class gives stability to a system. They never get carried away strongly, one way or the other. Maybe we'll have riots, maybe we'll have shootings. Maybe we'll have uprisings as the farmers did in Iowa. But you won't have revolution.

An operating system is the great facilitator; it is the great protector; it is the great illusionist.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

The whole system of visas and borders is less than a hundred years old; it only came into force in most places after World War II.

Niceness is not fairness. Peace (or the absence of open conflict) is not justice. Comfort is not guaranteed. Until we dismantle this system, we will insist, in words and actions: Change is necessary.

When I left the parole building that day, it was the first time in two decades that I was no longer in the clutches of the U.S. justice system.

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.

The thing about playing basketball in Houston was we had a great coach, great system, and we had guys that believed in me. Once you get that belief in you, it's easy to play basketball, so, we really never had so-called role players.

Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.

Something we learned from foster kids after sitting down with them to hear their stories is that so many of them are invested in social justice, and they're all invested in making the system better for the kids behind them.

Lists have always implied social order.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.

Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.