Systems Quotes
Systems Quote of the day
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.
In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.
The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them
Almost All Problem Areas Of Your Life Are Caused By Faulty Belief Systems. You Are The Cause Of Your Problems And You Are The Solution To Your Problems.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers
No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.
The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.
I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.
We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.
I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.
Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.
But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.