Quotes About System

A symbolic system is like a game in that it provides a separate reality, a world of its own where one can perform actions that are permitted to occur in that world, but that would not make much sense anywhere else.

consciousness is not a strictly linear system, but one in which circular causality obtains. Attention shapes the self, and is in turn shaped by it.

a new faith is to capture our imagination, it must be one that will account rationally for the things we know, the things we feel, the things we hope for, and the ones we dread. It must be a system of beliefs that will marshal our psychic energy toward meaningful goals, a system that provides rules for a way of life that can provide flow.

La fe más prometedora para el futuro podría basarse en la comprensión de que el universo entero es un sistema relacionado por leyes comunes y que no tiene sentido imponer nuestros sueños y deseos sobre la naturaleza sin tenerla en cuenta.

creativity must, in the last analysis, be seen not as something happening within a person but in the relationships within a system.

creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognize and validate the innovation

person also needs access to a domain. This depends to a great extent on luck. Being born to an affluent family, or close to good schools, mentors, and coaches obviously is a great advantage. It does no good to be extremely intelligent and curious if I cannot learn what it takes to operate in a given symbolic system.

Almost invariably, any native with enough understanding of the system to bring it down has too much invested in it to want to see it fall,

The word planet should be reserved for the small number of truly important things in the solar system.

Train your tenants to abide by the rules of your system. When this happens, charge them $85.00 for a missed repair appointment and stick to it. Do NOT void this charge. If you void this charge, you just enabled and trained your tenant that it's okay to behave this way!

BOTTOM LINE on HVAC for Rentals – install the cheapest system. Both cheap HVAC and super expensive energy efficient systems can be destroyed in ruined from a dirty air filter and/or not keeping the system clean.

The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

Infrastructure as Code." If you're going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.

Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.

Symbolic AI takes human-readable observations about the world and builds them into an expert system that allows a computer to make deductions and decisions.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

The hierarchy of death is, in fact, the only thing that makes possible a system of contracts between the various levels of reality in an otherwise vast space where deaths endlessly repeat themselves like echoes within echoes...

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

I was thoroughly fed up with the system. I had followed the rules for all these years, but there was no way I could stay in the system and do what I wanted to do. The whole reason why the organization of Gion Kobu had been systematized in the first place was to ensure the dignity and financial independence of the women who worked there. Yet the strictures of the Inoue School kept us subservient to its authority. There was no room for any sort of autonomy.

This arcane system has been in place, unchanged, for over a hundred years. It contains no procedure for modification, no avenue for improvement or reform. Complaining or resisting is taboo. As noted, I had been trying to initiate changes in the system since I was fifteen. To no avail.