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Quotes About System

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.
~ Timothy Noah
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.
~ Craig Venter
There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
~ Tim Jackson
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
~ Eric Schmidt
In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.
~ Dianne Feinstein
The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.
~ Elizabeth Flock
It's the coach's job to pick the system, we just try and implement it as best as we can.
~ Aaron Mooy
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
~ Joseph Beuys
The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
~ Benazir Bhutto
I know there are pros and cons about the studio system.
~ Cyd Charisse
We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.
~ George Papandreou
Governments are supposed to operate under a system of collective responsibility. It means that in public, all Ministers support the agreed policies of the Government, and each other.
~ Damian Green
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.
~ Peter Higgs
The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.
~ Masha Gessen
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.
~ Peter Jackson
There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.
~ Robert C. Solomon
The whole process to raise stars is very systematic.
~ Choi Si-won
I think our criminal justice system has two problems. We have systematic problems and we have people problems. So if the hearts of people are not about justice than any system you have won't work.
~ Maya Moore
Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.
~ Martin Jacques
If you're not thinking about the way systemic bias can be propagated through the criminal justice system or predictive policing, then it's very likely that, if you're designing a system based on historical data, you're going to be perpetuating those biases.
~ Kate Crawford
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
~ Henry Cloud
India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.
~ Sal Khan
Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities. We may be wrong. We may be trying to return a guilty man to the community. No one can really know. But we have a reasonable doubt, and this is a safeguard that has enormous value in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. We nine can't understand how you three are still so sure. Maybe you can tell us.
~ Reginald Rose