Quotes About System

a) The more nonlinear, the more the function of something divorces itself from the something. If traffic were linear, then there would be no difference in traffic time between the two following situations: 90,000, then 110,000 cars on the one hand, or 100,000 cars on the other.

We use reference points in our heads, say sales projections, and start building beliefs around them because less mental effort is needed to compare an idea to a reference point than to evaluate it in the absolute (System 1 at work!). We cannot work without a point of reference.

you never cure structural defects; the system corrects itself by collapsing.*2

We saw that bureaucrats (whether in government or large corporations) live in a system of rewards based on narratives

1) how a collection of units doesn't behave like a sum of units

It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied

it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups—like

To Nero, a system built on illusions of understanding probability is bound to collapse.

Talvez a ideia por trás do capitalismo seja um efeito iatrogênico inverso, as consequências involuntárias-mas-não-tão-involuntárias: o sistema facilita a conversão de objetivos egoístas (ou, para ser correto, não necessariamente benevolentes) no nível individual para resultados benéficos ao coletivo.

My biggest problem with the educational system lies precisely in that it forces students to squeeze explanations out of subject matters and shames them for withholding judgment, for uttering the "I don't know.

Much progress comes from the young because of their relative freedom from the system and courage to take action that older people lose as they become trapped in life.

A doctor is pushed by the system to transfer risk from himself to you

people don't learn so much from their—and other people's—mistakes; rather it is the system that learns by selecting those less prone to a certain class of mistakes and eliminating others.

The hidden costs of health care are largely in the denial of antifragility.

the burden of proof lies on someone disturbing a complex system, not on the person protecting the status quo.

Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic human health. The development of industry and commerce at the cost of life has crippled humankind, without exception to one's place in the social hierarchy.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

I choose to be known as scythe Anastasia after the youngest member of the family Romanov she was the product of a corrupt system, and because of that, was denied her very life—as I almost was had she lived who knows what she might have done. perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. choose to be scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that night have been

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

The most successful salesperson was offering a product called Touch of Quietude, which sounded more like a feminine hygiene product than a death delivery system.

Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?

Hello, Jackass Dirtbag," says a perky computer voice. "Welcome to your divisional experience! I am your fully automated Unwinding Intelli-System, but you can call me UNIS.

Simply put, unsavories have a need to despise the system. To facilitate that, I had to create a system worthy of loathing. In reality, there is no actual need for people to take a number, or to wait for long periods of time. There isn't even a need for an intake agent. It's all designed to make unsavories feel as if the system is wasting their time. The illusion of inefficiency serves the specific purpose of creating annoyance around which unsavories can bond. - The Thunderhead

But we couldn't holler law because when you didn't have any money the law stopped working.