Quotes About System

Management of a system, cooperation between components, not competition. Management of people.

Blame the process, not the people.

On idea of merit rating) Everyone propels himself forward or tries to, for his own good, on his own life preserver. The organization is the loser. Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system. Don't rock the boat.

Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose,Speaking clearly and most severely,Law is as I've told you before,Law is as you know I suppose,Law is but let me explain it once more,Law is The Law.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system.

I don't care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don't really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.

We have the worst laws.

Scrivendo trovavo breve pace e mi sentivo ridiventare un uomo, uno come tutti, nè martire nè infame nè santo, uno di quelli che si fanno una famiglia, e guardano al futuro anzichè al passato. - Il sistema periodico

Melvin Conway, in a statement that became known as Conway's Law, made the following observation: "Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." [17]