Quotes About System

The wealthy and powerful have rigged the system to perpetuate their privilege; the professional classes have figured out how to pass their advantages on to their children, converting the meritocracy into a hereditary aristocracy; colleges that claim to select students on merit give an edge to the sons and daughters of the wealthy and the well-connected. According to this complaint, meritocracy is a myth, a distant promise yet to be redeemed.14

If meritocracy is an aspiration, those who fall short can always blame the system; but if meritocracy is a fact, those who fall short are invited to blame themselves.

One is the frustration that arises when the system falls short of its meritocratic promise, when those who work hard and play by the rules are unable to advance.

The first diagram that you need on any project is a context diagram.

The obvious question then, is why did Obama leave so many holes in the system? The answer that comes to mind is that this was deliberate. It was (perhaps) an unwritten agreement within the Deep State and between Obama and Clinton, that when she became president, she would then appoint all her own favorites to those vacancies – then generate a variety of controversies that would require court rulings

Instead, knowledge gets its essential unity from the goal that uniquely orients the pursuit of knowledge. And this goal, Kant argues, can be nothing other than knowledge of the system of ideas. This system consists of an infinitely intelligible reality – the thing in itself or the absolute world – which is constituted by God – the ens realissimum or the absolute ground of all reality – who is at the same time the infinite intellect or the absolute soul.

The American system of education, in its incipiency, and for a long while, was one founded on Bible-teaching and religious exercises. The present system is un-American, anti-American.

In the winter of 1985 I learned from Russian friends a perfect saying to describe the system: "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Capitalism is not just an economic system but an entire social order. Once it takes hold, it is not voted out of existence by electing socialists or communists.

Does that mean the French are getting in on the act?" "Actually, they were in on the act before we got here. That's why so much French is spoken. Their legal system, for instance, is based on the Napoleonic Code." "You want to watch that. They could take advantage of that. You want to get them out." "In fact, we did get them out. That's why we're here.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I'd say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our system and our food supply. It doesn't have to be like that.

After a tour of the wards, it begins to look like consciousness is not a system property at all. It is a property of local brain circuits.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine ' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Design with skepticism, and you will achieve resilience. Ask, "What can system X do to hurt me?" and then design a way to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge whatever wrench your supposed ally throws.

If your system is difficult or annoying to administer, it will be neglected, deprecated, and probably implemented incorrectly. It might even get sabotaged.

The circadian timing system modulates the activity of every cell in our body. Timed light exposure is nature's way of keeping the activity of these cells in check.

When designing a system, I believe it's important to construct a set of rules that fit more like a mitten than like a glove.

The problem is, of course, that the functions of leadership are not well understood. Leaders, according to John Kotter of the Harvard Business School, function quite differently from managers. Leaders are responsible to provide vision, raise up other leaders, and create useful change. Managers, however, maintain the present system and seek to enhance it. Sadly, most church leaders are, in reality, managers.

The fact that he had stayed out of jail showed, impressively for many, how easily the system could be played. Seen from this point of view, he really might be a genius.

He was a clown-prince version of Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Trump believed, offering catnip to deep American ire and resentment, that one man could be bigger than the system.