Quotes About System

established Yellowstone as the first national park on March 1, 1872. President Lincoln had signed a bill in 1864 that permitted California to preserve the Yosemite Valley and the giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove, but it was Grant who initiated the modern national park system.

For many years, Rockefeller had tried to free himself from details and applauded the committee system as relegating him to a fifth wheel.

Both Rockefeller and Archbold favored scrapping their former system of operating through European brokers and instead launching their own marketing subsidiaries.

Nonetheless, the producers, repeating past errors, exercised no discipline and drilled far beyond the system's capacity.

On April 30, 1781, Hamilton sent a marathon letter to Morris—it runs to thirty-one printed pages—that set forth a full-fledged system for shoring up American credit and creating a national bank.

It was the northern economic system that embodied the mix of democracy and capitalism that was to constitute the essence of America in the long run.

The central problem with the notion of creation is that it appears to require some externality, something outside of the system itself, to preexist, in order to create the conditions necessary for the system to come into being. This is usually where the notion of God—some external agency existing separate from space

And the last one is this hyperimmune response," said Brooks. Infectious diseases frequently kill by triggering an excessive immune-system response.

Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.

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And if the power is cut for any reason, even for an instant, the system fails safe and the doors automatically revert to locked.

Frenchman Honoré de Balzac wrong when he wrote, 'Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Balzac wrong when he wrote, 'Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Targeting individuals, while ignoring larger system failures, oversimplifies the problem and does little to prevent its recurrence.

The system which Hitler established—the social reality which so many Germans were so eager to embrace or so willing to endure—the politics which began in a theory and ended in Auschwitz—was: the "total state." The term, from which the adjective "totalitarian" derives, was coined by Hitler's mentor, Mussolini.

To satisfy this need, one must recognize that philosophy is a system of ideas. By its nature as an integrating science, it cannot be a grab bag of isolated issues. All philosophic questions are interrelated. One may not, therefore, raise any such questions at random, without the requisite context. If one tries the random approach, then questions (which one has no means of answering) simply proliferate in all directions.

I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

An ugly system is one in which there are special interfaces for everything you want to do. Unix is the opposite. It gives you the building blocks that are sufficient for doing everything. That's what having a clean design is all about.

Anger at the senselessness of my situation, at the stupidity of French bureaucracy, filled me to the very pores. My intelligence failed to offer the argument that I was dealing not with individual men but with a system.

COURTHOUSES WERE THEIR own special kind of madness.

What would be worth kidnapping two enterprising teen girls and holding them hostage? How about setting up a system to generate real student visas? I can even see Angelique's personal interest in taking on such a project, given her immigration status, and her brother's. Maybe that had made it sound like a good idea … before it wasn't.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.