System Quotes
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Since it has no boundaries, the world is not a system.
 Niklas Luhmann
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Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
 Michael K. Powell
					 
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The heavenly bodies move with such regularity, orderliness, and symmetry that it is truly a marvel; and they continue always to act in this manner ceaselessly, following the established system, without increasing or reducing speed and continuing without respite, as the Scripture says: Summer and winter, night and day they never rest.
 Nicole Oresme
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If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.
 Andrew Plotkin
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This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?
 Isaac Newton
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If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code.
 Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
 Hasso Plattner
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A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.
 Brian Crozier
					 
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Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
 Will Yun Lee
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
 Marian Wright Edelman
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One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.
 Ezra Klein
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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!
 Bill Crawford
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Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.
 Hillary Clinton
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I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.
 Steven Hall
					 
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I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
 Mahatma Gandhi
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The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.
 Dan Smoot
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Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
 David T. Kearns
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Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.
 Kevin De Bruyne
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As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
 Richard Matheson
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Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.
 David Blumenthal
					 
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I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.
 Alex Kozinski
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“With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.”
 Arlene Holt Baker
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Conduct a rigorous evaluation of the system's security features.
 John Callahan
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.
 George Bernard Shaw