Quotes About System

Making everything easy to change, makes the entire system very complex...

We follow protocol in our entire lives, nothing doesn't follow protocol

It was about a class system, the fact that the underclass, Oskar and Albin, always slipped off the roofs of the rich folk.

The models of modern physics are concerned, therefore, both with con- tinuous and discrete values. It would seem appropriate to consider a hybrid system. It will be extremely difficult to find a technical model of a hybrid computer which behaves according to the laws of quantum physics.

It is interesting that a pair of isolated pulses yields a stable system: the emis- sion of two diverging digital particles (Fig. 19). Appar- ently only certain configura- tions are possible, while oth- ers are excluded or provide no stable results. This bears a certain similarity to some situations in quantum mechanics.

Cellular automatons provide an elegant solution when each cell contains a complete calculating system, as symbolically represented in Fig. 73. These single calculating systems contain both information-processing and information-storing elements.

All the [energy] that was tied up in family bonds must be withdrawn from the narrower circle into the larger one, because the psychic health of the adult individual, who in childhood was a mere particle revolving in a rotary system, demands that he should himself become the centre of a new system.

If the assumptions underlying the legislative state of the parliamentary-democratic variety are no longer tenable, then closing one's eyes to the concrete constitutional situation and clinging to an absolute, 'value-neutral,' functionalist and formal concept of law, in order to save the system of legality, is not far off. The 'law,' then, is only the present decision of the momentary parliamentary majority.

The First Law starts from the fact that in any physical system there are two kinds of energy (for simplicity, we ignore the possible presence of electric and magnetic fields), mechanical and thermal. Their sum may change because one performs work on the system or supplies heat to the system.

The First Law simply states that the change in total energy equals the work performed on, plus the heat supplied to, the system (measured in suitable units).

Probability does not refer to the system as such (the dice, the newspaper editor, the decaying atom, tomorrow's weather), but to the knowledge that I have about this system.

The entropy of a system depends explicitly on blurring. It depends on what I do not register, because it depends on the number of indistinguishable configurations. The same microscopic configuration may be of high entropy with regard to one blurring and of low in relation to another.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems.

It is with respect to that physical system to which we belong—due to the peculiar way in which it interacts with the rest of the world, thanks to the fact that it allows traces and because we, as physical entities, consist of memory and anticipation—that the perspective of time opens up for us, like our small, lit clearing.

A small system S does not distinguish the details of the rest of the universe because it interacts only with a few among the variables of the rest of the universe.

The "present" does not exist in an objective sense any more than "here" exists objectively, but the microscopic interactions within the world prompt the emergence of temporal phenomena within a system (for instance, ourselves) that interacts only through the medium of a myriad of variables. Our

Therefore, the first meaning of quantum mechanics is the existence of a limit to the information that can exist within a system: a limit to the number of distinguishable states in which a system can be. This limitation upon infinity, this granularity of nature glimpsed by Democritus, is the first central aspect of the theory. Planck's constant h measures the elementary scale of this granularity.

Remember that a key result of quantum mechanics is precisely the fact that information is finite. The number of alternative results that we can obtain measuring a physical system* is infinite in classical mechanics; but thanks to quantum theory, we have understood that, in reality, it is finite. Quantum mechanics can be understood as the discovery that information in nature is always finite.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems. The

The entire formal structure of quantum mechanics can be in large measure expressed in two simple postulates:1 The relevant information in any physical system is finite. You can always obtain new information on a physical system.

Why does information play such a central role as this? Perhaps because we must not confuse what we know about a system with the absolute state of the same system. What we know is something concerning the relation between the system and ourselves. Knowledge is intrinsically relational; it depends just as much on its object as upon its subject.

Nearly half of foster children in the U.S. become homeless when they turn eighteen

The problem is that the system does in fact benefit those who work in it, and the way that it becomes better for them is to clamp down and destroy more lives while milking those lives for more cash.

To simplify, the state steals money—taxes—from parents in order to use that money to kidnap children from those very parents. This is why reform may be impossible, for the very nature of the system is unethical and based on the destruction of others.