Quotes About System

The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.

i believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

He met with Pope Paul VI, and they found common ground in their conviction that faith brings meaning to life regardless of the belief system.

By "global ethics," the Dalai Lama means that all people must take personal responsibility for ensuring human rights, fairness, equality, and environmental protection, regardless of their belief system.

If the chemistry was too simple and the complexity of the interactions was too low, then nothing would happen; the system would be "subcritical." But if the complexity of the interactions was rich enough-and Kauffman's mathematics now allowed him to define precisely what that meant-then the system would be "supercritical." Autocatalysis would be inevitable. And the order really would be for free.

Through feedback, said Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth, a mechanism could embody purpose.

The Truly SAGE System, or Toward a Man-Machine System for Thinking

just an ASR-33 Teletype terminal that could dial in to a nearby GE Mark II time-sharing system, which offered little more than GE's version of BASIC.

Tomlinson had already written an E-mail utility for Tenex, BBN's new time-shared operating system for the PDP-10, and had also begun to experiment with a new version of the Arpanet's file-transfer protocol. So putting the two together seemed a natural step.

Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny were starting to plan a campus-wide time-sharing system for much the same reason; the effort would eventually lead them to create an interactive programming language that they would call BASIC.

First of all, I don't think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it's a system.

Trump's election alone cast doubt in international circles on the judgment of the American people and on the reliability of the democratic system to produce defensible outcomes.

The camorra turned the needs and rights of their fellow prisoners (like their bread or their pizzo) into favours. Favours that had to be paid for, one way or another. The camorra system was based on the power to grant those favours and to take them away. Or even to throw them in people's faces. The real cruelty of the turnip-throwing episode is that the camorrista was bestowing a favour that he could just as easily have withheld.

What good? I'll bury them back there in the court and wait. I'll need them in the end. D'you know what it'll mean, your revolution? Another system! When there's a system there are always men to be bought with diamonds. That's what the world's like." "But they won't be worth anything. It'll only be work that is worth anything." "We'll see," said the Chink.

There are no formulas with God. Period. So there are no formulas for the man who follows him. God is a Person, not a doctrine. He operates not like a system—not even a theological system—but with all the originality of a truly free and alive person.

There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing and sniping at each other under the scornful eye of a judge, the referee, and somehow in the midst of this barrage of laws and code sections and motions and legal talk the kid was supposed to know what was happening to him. It was hopelessly unfair.

In the U.S. there are over two million people locked up, and it takes one million employees and $80 billion in tax dollars to take care of them.

Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets.

Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with the state legislatures. And since most of the state's prisoners were either poor or black, and unable to use the system to their advantage, it was easy to hit them with harsh sentences and keep them locked up. But for an inmate with a few connections and some cash, the parole system was a marvelous labyrinth of contradictory laws that allowed the Parole Board to pass out favors.

If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.

But a year in jail for an innocent man is pure luck in our system.

The system reflects society. It's not always fair, but it's as fair as the system in New York, or Massachusetts, or California. It's as fair as biased, emotional humans can make it.

Jailhouse snitches testify every day in this country. Other civilized countries prohibit them, but not here.