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Quotes About System

Since 1988, Iran has had a government-funded, regulated system for purchasing kidneys.
~ Peter Singer
Decoherence – entanglement with the environment – is the very process by which information passes from the quantum system to its environment. It's what makes this information accessible: what makes the pointer move. Thanks to einselection, the information gets filtered in the process so that only the pointer states survive.
~ Philip Ball
I did not find God in the Prox system. But I found something better. God promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.
~ Philip K. Dick
Es como la fábrica totalmente automatizada que se repara a sí misma. ¿Sabe a lo que se refiere la palabra «retroalimentación»?
~ Philip K. Dick
Look, everything the Communists say about capitalism is true, and everything the capitalists say about Communism is true. The difference is, our system works because it's based on the truth about people's selfishness, and theirs doesn't because it's based on a fairy tale about people's brotherhood. It's such a crazy fairy tale they've got to take people and put them in Siberia in order to get them to believe it.
~ Philip Roth
In the terrorist case, the inequivalence can be shown by proving the compatibility within the system of the following two propositions: (a) Yesterday it was possible for there to be an explosion. (b) It is not possible today that there was an explosion yesterday
~ David Foster Wallace
Real finance has human oversight and trusted responsibility all through it — and not automated systems that humans can't touch. Unfortunately, Libra's Bitcoin ancestry was still clear in the design of the system.
~ David Gerard
Bitcoin also promised to solve the problems of the existing financial system and get rid of its middlemen — and then it recreated most of those middlemen, but incompetently
~ David Gerard
Facebook and a cartel of junior partners will leverage their platform power to establish a global financial surveillance system, on the back of public monetary systems. — Raúl Carrillo, Demand Progress
~ David Gerard
The two pillars of the Toyota production system are just-in-time and automation with a human touch, or autonomation.
~ David J. Anderson
Decide the outer boundaries of the kanban system. It is often best to limit this to the immediate span of political control. Do not force visualization, transparency, and WIP limits on any department that does not volunteer to collaborate.
~ David J. Anderson
The left is relentlessly assaulting our constitutional system and traditional values and viciously attacking those who resist.
~ David Limbaugh
I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.
~ David Mamet
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
~ David Sedaris
He set in place a system whereby every area of performance was explored. The idea was that if small percentage improvements were made in numerous areas – diet, psychology, aerodynamics, ergonomics – the cumulative improvement would be substantial. In a nutshell, if you did every little thing right then almost without noticing you could achieve something big.
~ Unknown
Manticore System's G0 primary and its G2 companion were dim behind her, reduced to two more stars amid millions, for the Junction lay almost seven light-hours from them.
~ David Weber
No one could place two-thirds of a world's population on the Dole and keep them there forever without the entire system crashing 
~ David Weber
At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.
~ Dean Koontz
Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.
~ Dean Koontz
A referendum magnifies the worst aspects of an already imperfect system—democracy—channeling a dazzlingly wide variety of issues through a very narrow gate. It has
~ Zadie Smith
Our external tubular heating system, painted in garish primary colors, looked like a poor man's Pompidou.
~ Zadie Smith
From the moment I got to Hollywood, I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way; the business gets in the way of the art.
~ Martin Kove
The most important thing is there is a foundation and an accountability to a system.
~ Erik Spoelstra
I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.
~ Luis Guzman