Systems Quotes
I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.
You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.
We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.
I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.
I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go system.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.
I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.
The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.
I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.
The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.
I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.
Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.
In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems...
For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.
Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems
Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.
It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.
All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.
Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.
All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully
Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.
Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.
A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.
The most fundamental problem is not that we don’t have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires.
It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.
Customer service has everything to do with consistency, systems, training, and the habits you and your team create.
When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.
It is interesting that we know how the world and the planetary systems work, but we don’t know how we think and why we are conscious.
Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.