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Quotes About System

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
~ Christopher Lasch
The truth is that there can be no proper training that does not educate the whole system of the man.
~ Christopher McDougall
Do you think it could be that those in charge of the guilds keep the system in operation after it has outlived its original purpose? It seems to me that the system works by suppression of knowledge. I don't see what that achieves. It has made me very discontented, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
~ Christopher Priest
Some viruses don't actually harm the system itself, but all of them cause network slowdowns due to the heavy network traffic caused by the virus replication
~ Unknown
Do you think I'm stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system." Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Complain about your crumbling infrastructure and overzealous Homeland Security all you like, but as least you have a system that theoretically provides both , which is a damn sight better for national morale than knowing you don't , and that at any moment some Aramis-drenched Visigoth could climb in the window of your bedroom, unzip your torso like a garment bag and eat out your liver with a crab fork.
~ Cintra Wilson
But how can those who violently experience hatred, despair, chaos, nothingness, or love, who burn with each passion and gradually die with each and in each, those who can only breathe on heights, who are always alone, especially when they are with others - how can they grow in linear fashion and crystallize into a system?
~ Unknown
The trouble with law is lawyers.
~ Clarence Darrow
There is no such thing as justice - in or our of court.
~ Clarence Darrow
But I'm afraid to begin composing in order to be understood by the imaginary someone, I'm afraid to start to "make" a meaning, with the same tame madness that till yesterday was my healthy way of fitting into a system. Will I need the courage to use an unprotected heart and keep talking to the nothing and the no one? as a child thinks about the nothing. And run the risk of being crushed by chance.
~ Clarice Lispector
I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.
~ Clarice Lispector
Grouping students by the same age is just a bad idea. The education-industrial complex is structured around organizing children by age. This is a bad idea for so many reasons.
~ Unknown
we have built a reward structure to praise those students who can sit in classrooms better than anyone else. We let them run our planet. However,
~ Unknown
Again Serena's frustrations, her disappointments, exist within a system you understand not to try to understand in any fair-minded way because to do so is to understand the erasure of the self as systemic, as ordinary.
~ Claudia Rankine
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
~ Cliff Shaw
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
~ Cliff Stearns
There is no modern approach on anything even when you change your environment and not changing an old system.
~ Unknown
Though our vocabularies were different, we both view the human mind as a symbol-manipulating (my term) or information processing (Al Newell) system.
~ Herbert A. Simon
We invented a computer program capable of thinking non-numerically, and thereby solved and venerable mind/body problem, explaining how a system composed of matter can have the properties of mind. Opening the way to automate tasks that had previously required human intelligence.
~ Herbert A. Simon
it may be comforting to recall that detailed longitudinal analysis of the behavior of a single solar system was the foundation stone for Kepler's laws, and ultimately Newton's.
~ Herbert A. Simon
Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.
~ Herbert Marcuse
For the Enemy is permanent. He is not in the emergency situation but in the normal state of affairs. He threatens in peace as much as in war (and perhaps more than in war); he is thus being built into the system as a cohesive power.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
~ Herbert Simon