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Quotes About Systems

HR professionals often see their largest job challenges as sourcing talent, improving performance management, defining compensation, and providing training programs and other HR systems.
~ Dave Ulrich
But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times.
~ James C. Scott
As Tilly suggests, the important issue was "effectiveness (total output)," not "efficiency (the ratio of output to input)." In an increasingly violent world, the systems that predominated through five centuries of competition were necessarily those that facilitated the greatest access to resources needed to make war on a large scale.
~ James Dale Davidson
Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings.
~ James Dale Davidson
Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
~ James Fallows
The criminal justice and penal systems have been operating on the basis of a huge mistake, namely, the belief that punishment will deter, prevent, or inhibit violence, when in fact it is the most powerful stimulus of violence that we have yet discovered.
~ James Gilligan
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output…. In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butterfly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.
~ James Gleick
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
~ James Graham Ballard
Medical devices and EHR systems are notoriously vulnerable to remote compromise
~ James Scott
Sitting there I had a vision of the world with nations, systems, economic blocks, hardening and consolidating; a world where it would become increasingly ludicrous even to talk about freedom, or the individual conscience.
~ Doris Lessing
liberation is about human flourishing. It is about creating systems that do not limit the ability of human beings to flourish, to reach their highest potential.
~ Akiba Solomon
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
~ Alan Perlis
First rule of complex systems," I said. "You can't tell friends from enemies.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I'm really excited by science and technology and the whole social media thing. I think it's fascinating. But at the same time I'm wary of bureaucratic systems and managers.
~ Robert Del Naja
there are four separate and distinct components to consider in the DW/BI environment: operational source systems, ETL system, data presentation area, and business intelligence applications.
~ Ralph Kimball
**(C)(P) PLANDEMIC- THE WORD CREATED BY RAS CARDO FROM TRENCH TOWN TO SHOW HOW BABYLON SYSTEMS USES SCAMS AND SCHEMES TO KEEP JAH PEOPLE ENSLAVED IN SUFFERINGS. THIS IS THE GLOBAL NET THEY SPREAD OVER THE PEOPLE, CREATING CULTURES OF -WE AND DEM.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
~ Anatoly Chubais
We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.
~ Ellen Ochoa
The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.
~ Rebecca Solnit
If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly knowing its history, its systems, and the people who are different from you and who move through different versions of the city.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Ultimately the destruction of the Earth is due in part, perhaps in large part, to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can't count what matters.
~ Rebecca Solnit
If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.
~ Rebecca Solnit
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.
~ Richard Bach